[ 英文摘要 ]

This research mainly probed into the relevance of the religious belief reason, the invest intensity and the well-being of believers in Nichiren Shoshu Foundation of R.O.C., collected 647 effective questionnaires by random sampling pattern, and took believers distributed over 18 counties and cities in Taiwan as the research subjects. The data was analyzed by count suit software SPSS13.0 edition. Its result of study was as follows:

I. There were significant sex differences in religious belief reason, invest intensity and the well-being:

(1) The percentages of female believer regard ' actual purpose ' as the reason were higher than that of the male believer.

(2) The female believers were higher in the attitude and the practice intensity than male believers.

(3) Women believer's well-being was higher than that of the male believer.

II. There were differences in the religious belief reason, the invest intensity and the well-being by age.

(1) There were more believers of the age level under 40 years old to regard social factor as the faith reason, and more believers of the age levels over 41 years old to regard actual purpose as the reason of faith.

(2) In the believe attitude, the believe practice and the literature practice, there was a tendency that old believers had higher invest intensity than young believers had.

III. There were differences in the religious belief reason, and the invest intensity by Marriage.

(1) There were relatively more believers divorcing to unmarried and married believers to join faith with the institutional purport factor

(2) There were more unmarried believers than married believers to join faith with the social factor.

(3) The married believer regarded actual purpose factor as the faith reason more than the unmarried believer.

IV. There were differences in the religious belief reason, and the practice intensity by education degree.

(1) Relatively the believers of high school regarded traditional religious purport as mainly believe reason were more than the believer above intensity of the university.

(2) The percentages of believers with junior high school level acceded to faith with actual purpose factor were higher than that of believers with university level.

(3) The believer of high school was higher than the believer of the university in believing practice strength.

V. The education degree was the important factor in order to predict the well-being.

VI. There were differences in the religious belief reason, and the practice intensity by father’s native place.

(1) There were more believers father’s native place was the Hakka than those father’s native place was the Minnarn placed into faith by institutional purport factors.

(2) There were more believers father’s native place was the Minnarn than those father’s native place was the Hakka placed into faith by social factors.

(3) The literature practice intensity of believers whose father was the Hakka were higher than that of father’s native place was the Minnarn.

VII. There were differences in the religious belief reason, and the practice intensity by the occupation.

(1) Student believers regarded social factor as reason were more than others.

(2) Student's literature practice intensity was generally lower than others.

VIII. There were differences in the religious belief reason, and the invest intensity by the residence.

(1) Believers in TaoChuMiao Area were more acceded to faith by the institutional purport factor than believers in Taipei County.

(2) Believers in Keelung, Yilan and Hualien spent more investment in believe practice and literature practice than those in south and Taipei.

IX. There were differences in the religious belief reason, the invest intensity and the well-being by the position in religion.

(1) There were more believers with position in religion to regard actual purpose as the reason of faith than general believers among order.

(2) In the well-being, the believer with position in religion had higher total points than the general believer.

X. There were differences in the religious belief reason, the invest intensity and the well-being by seniority

(1) Believers whose seniority were under 5 years relatively regarded traditional religious purport as mainly believe reason than believers whose seniority were over 15 years.

(2) In the invest intensity, senior believers were higher than junior believers.

XI. The believe practice was important to predict factor for the well-being, and appeared to show as significant positive correlation. The stronger practice strength, the more positive influence for the well-being.

Keywords： Nichiren Shoshu, Religious belief, Well-being