Analysis on satisfaction with life of home-going peasant-workers
- VernacularTitle:返乡农民工生活满意感状况分析
- Author:
Xianhua LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2006;10(18):176-178
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND: As a typical small cluster of social vulnerable groups in China, peasant-workers have aroused extensive attention because of their social situation. Therefore, it has important praxis significance for establishing harmonious society to penetrate into the status of their satisfaction with life and improve their quality of life.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the status of satisfaction with life of homegoing peasant-workers so as to provide a sound basis for improving their quality of life.DESIGN: A simple random sampling survey.SETTING:Department of Educational Science of Hengyang Normal University.PARTICIPANTS: This investigation was conducted in 15 provinces of China in February 2005. Totally 300 home-going peasant-workers weresurveyed during the Spring Festival.METHODS: The peasant-workers were tested individually with the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). It was made up of 5 items:The first item was "In most ways my life is close to my ideal ", the second was "The conditions of my life are excellent", the third was "I am satisfied with my life", the fourth was "So far I have gotten the important things I want in life", the fifth was "If I could live my life over, I would change almost nothing". Using the 1-7 scale below: 1-Strongly disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-Slightly disagree, 4-Neither agree nor disagree, 5-Slightly agree, 6-Agree, 7-Strongly agree.The test-retest reliability of this scale was higher than 0.80, the content-related validity was 0.60, and the crieterionrelated validity was higher than 0.50. They were given uniform directions and answered each question individually according to their own conditions in the latest week. All the answer papers were handed in on the spot. The data of SWLS were input into the computer for statistical analysis. The questionnaire in which more than 4 items were selected the answer of "neither agree nor disagree" were considered to be invalid and therefore rejected for analysis. All the valid data were input into the computer and statistically analysed with SPSS 11.0 software; differences among groups were compared with t test or analysis of variance.MAIN OUTCOME MESURES: The scores of SWLS answered by the peasant-workers.RESULTS: Totally 300 questionnaires were distriluted and 275 of them were collected, with a recovery rate of 91.67%, of which 245 were valid for result analysis, including 118 males and 127 females aged from 16 to 52 years old with the mean age of 26.09 years. They came from 15 provinces of China and from 16 kinds of vocation. Their monthly-earning was from 200 yuan to 8 000yuan. The investigated results of SWLS showed that: ①29.8% of the tested home-going peasant-workers were inclined to be satisfied with their life, and 41.6% of them were inclined to be unsatisfied. ②There was obviously sexual difference in the item of "I am satisfied with my life"among the tested homegoing peasant-workers.[(4.50±1.70,3.95±1.53) (t=2.65,P ＜ 0.001 )]. ③Earning markedly affected their feeling of "The conditions of my life are excellent" and "So far I have gotten the important things I want in life" [(3.79±1.85, 3.98±1.64,4.07±1.44,4.84±1.14) (F=3.068,P ＜ 0.05); (4.64±2.03,3.72±1.68,4.07±1.67,4.19±1.28) (F=2.813,P ＜ 0.05)]. ④there was no significant difference of satisfaction with life of the tested home-going peasant-workers in educational level and term on duty. CONCLUSION: Majority of the home-going peasant-workers were unsatisfied with their living. Sex and earning were the important factors that affected their satisfaction with life, educational level and term on duty had weakly correlated with it.
