本研究主要目的爲：1.瞭解大學生的生活痛苦來源並瞭解大學生最感痛苦的生活層面；2.瞭解影響大學生生活痛苦程度的個人變項；3.探討最感痛苦的生活構面與個人變項之間的關係。研究中以中部地區不同性質的五所大學學生爲研究對象，利用所編製之大學生生活痛苦指數量表進行施測，然後針對有效樣本進行問卷結果的比較與分析，所利用統計方法包括描述性統計、t檢定、MANOVA等，茲將研究結果歸納如下： 1.大學生的生活痛苦來源共可分爲：人際、兩性、未來、課業、休閒、社會情境、政府作爲以及家庭影響等八個構面；而以政府作爲、未來發展和社會情境爲大學生感到最痛苦的三大構面。 2.除了父母的婚姻狀況外，不同性別、年級、父母教育程度、家中子女數，以及家庭收入的大學生，在某些生活層面的痛苦感受有所差異。 3.在大學生最感痛苦的前三大構面中：低年級學生、獨生子女和家庭收入在五萬元以上者在政府作爲的痛苦指數較高；獨生子女和家庭收入在五萬元以上者在對未來發展的痛苦指數較其他大學生高；獨生子女以及家中子女數爲2-3人者在社會情境的痛苦指數也比家庭子女數爲3個以上的大學生高。

The main objectives of this study were: 1. Find the sources of life misery of college students, and the major misery aspects. 2. Study the influencing factors of students' background variables and their life misery. 3. Investigate the relation between the background variables and the major aspects of life misery. A target sample was drawn from different colleges in Taichung district, and "The everyday life misery index scale of college students" was used as research instrument. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive analysis, t-test, and MANOVA, etc. Some of the major findings and conclusions were as follows: 1. Sources of misery for college students can be divided into eight aspects: interpersonal relationship, gender relationship, future, academic performances, amusement, society, government and family. The top misery items were government, future and society, respectively. 2. Except for the factor of their parents 'matrimonial state', students' backgrounds, including "genders", "grades", "parents' education degrees", "numbers of children" and "family income", affected their life misery. 3. Among the top misery aspects, lower grade students, single-child or family income above $ 50,000 had heavier misery in "government" aspect; single-child or family income above $ 50,000 had higher misery in "future" aspect; students in a family with children not greater than had higher misery in "society" aspect.