社會網絡與心理幸福因果關聯的方向性之探討：臺東師院追蹤調查資料的貫時性分析

The Study on the Directionality of Causal Relationship between Social Network and Psychological Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Panel Survey's Data from National Taitung Teachers College

過去眾多的實證研究結果顯示：社會網絡對心理幸福有很重要的正面影響。由於過去這方面的國內研究較少使用長期追蹤調查資料，以及做適當的統計分析，因此大部分的研究無法釐清這兩個變項因果關聯之方向性。 本研究目的在於探討「以上兩個變項之因果方向性到底為何」，這當可為教育社會學開拓一個新的研究議題。本研究使用了1，047位國立臺東師院學生的追蹤調查資料納入統計分析，並對相關干擾變項的影響做進一步控制。貫時性因果分析顯示：心理幸福對社會網絡有正面影響，社會網絡則對心理幸福沒有影響，即得到「心理幸福為因，社會網絡為果」的方向性。

A lot of empirical studies on causal relationship demonstrated the important positive effect of social network on psychological well-being. Panel surveys' data and adequate statistical analysis， however， were rarely adopted in Taiwan， and that's why couldn't clarify the directionality of causal relationship between the two variables. The main purpose of this study was to investigate “what the causal directionality of the two variables was”， and it could be a new research issue in Sociology of Education. To answer this question， this study used the panel survey's data of 1047 students in National Taitung Teachers college for the statistical analysis. Then this study had a further control on the effect of nuisance variables. The longitudinal causal analysis result indicated that psychological well-being had significant positive effects on social network， not vice versa.