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How about the conditions where you work? 4.
How about your wage, are you paid with fair? 5.
How do you think about the accordance of employment contracts with your work?
6. How about the chance for leisure time?
7. How about the chance for praying at prays
time?
2.2 Life Satisfaction
In the data set used here, life satisfaction is measured in terms of five levels Likert scale
ranging from ‗very good‘ to ‗very bad‘ adopted from Life Satisfaction Survey LSS. Then we can
estimate the following empirical model: ‗very good‘, ‗fairly good‘, ‗neither good nor bad‘, ‗fairly
bad‘, and ‗very bad‘ which the participant also must respond. The eight-questionnaire items of life
satisfaction listed as following. Eight-questionnaire items listed separately as
following: 1.
How about your dreams, hopes and ideals? 2.
How about your optimists‘ value? 3.
When you feeling anxious or depressed, how about your ability to calm down?
4. How about your ability to find positive ways
when deal with stress? 5.
How do you feel happy about your relationship with your family?
6. How about your life balanced between works
with your personal life? 7.
How about your emotionpsychology in daily life?
8. How about attitude in your life with gratitude?
2.3 Demographic Information
The questionnaire items related with the respondents are included at the last section of the
entire questionnaire. 1.
age of the respondent 2.
hometown of the respondent 3.
marriage status of the respondent 4.
education background level of the respondent 5.
occupation of the respondent 6.
working period of the respondent 7.
work location of the respondent.
2.4 Hypotheses to Be Tested
Numerous sets of research hypotheses were developed in this study for the following empirical
validation: H1: There is differentiation between education
backgrounds to job satisfaction H2: There is differentiation between education
backgrounds to life satisfaction H3: Working period would be positively related
to job satisfaction H4: Working period would be positively related
to life satisfaction H5: Job satisfaction would be positively related
to life satisfaction H6:
Job satisfaction would mediate the relation between working period and life satisfaction.
3 RESULT
This section is to present the basic part of the characteristics of the research variables, analysis,
and empirical results. To measure the construct measurement, validity test by using factor analysis
and reliability test by using internal consistency
Cronbach‘s Alpha were examined. Correlation analysis, one-way ANOVA and regression analysis
examined to test the hypotheses. Reliability coefficients for all measures was satisfactory
Cronbach‘s alpha .70 and above.
3.1 Data Collection
This research adopted convenience survey in the period from 25
th
April to 16
th
May 2010. The questionnaires were distributed to a sample of five
hundred 500 female Indonesian migrant workers in Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsincu, Taichung, Chiayi,
Tainan, Kaohsiung and Pintung. Two hundred and eighty four 284 data were collected, mostly from
Taipei City which 118 data were drawn.
This research use proportioned cluster sample. According to National Immigration Agency
April 2010, there were total 128.638 female Indonesian in Taiwan with distributed into 5
sectors: Northern Taiwan, Central Taiwan, Southern Taiwan, Eastern Taiwan, and Island area. Total
female Indonesian population in Northern Taiwan were 51.67, in Eastern Taiwan were 4.69, in
Central Taiwan were 21.17, in Southern Taiwan were 21.79, and in island outside Formosa Island
were 0.68. It was difficult to get respondent from Eastern Taiwan and Islands sectors, then we joined
Eastern Taiwan with Northern Taiwan total 56.36 and also Islands area with Southern
Taiwan total 22.47.
This study tries to get near to population percentage. We collected 284 samples from various
place in Taiwan with 56.34 of respondents are from Northern Taiwan, 21.13 are from Central
Taiwan, and 22.54 are from Southern Taiwan. Table 2 show the distribution of the population and
sample which indicate that between population and sample almost has same total area percentage.
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Table 2. Statistical-geographic population distribution of female Indonesian and sample of research
Population Sample
CountyCity N
CountyCity N Taoyuan County
12.425 Taoyuan
19 Hsincu County
4.05 Chungli
20 Keelung City
2.191 Hsinchu
3 Hsinchu City
3.567 56.36 56.34
Taipei City 23.853
Ilan County 2.901
Taitung County 1.001
Hualien County 2.125
Mioli County 3.915
Taichung 60
Taichung County 7.64
Changhua County 5.96 21.17
21.13 Nantou County
2.789 Taichung City
6.929 Yunlin County
3.909 Chiayi
7 Chiayi County
2.965 Tainan
7 Tainan County
4.095 Kaohsiung
46 Kaohsiung County
4.011 Pingtung
4 Pintung County
3.387 Chiayi City
1.323 22.47 22.54
Tainan City 3.105
Kaohsiung City 5.237
Penghu County 489
Kimen County 307
Lienchiang County 81
Total 128.638 100
Total 284 100
3.2 Characteristics of Respondents
