Asian Care Workers’ Psychosocial Well-being in Taiwan

Abstract

The present study mainly focused on understanding the well-being of migrant care workers in Taiwan from the perspective of social inclusion. We created and distributed a questionnaire to measure the well-being and social inclusion of migrant care workers. Nearly 200 questionnaires were completed by a sample of care workers that was representative of migrant worker’s regional distribution in Taiwan. The results of our factor analysis and regression model showed that when various control variables are held constant, economic and residential environment factors (including income, community facilities, financial services, neighborhood safety, and housing quality) had the greatest impact on the respondents’ well-being. The government might need to review their migrant worker policies for increasing their socio-economic and living environment.