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The purpose of this study was to analyze the mediating effect of middle-aged couples’ tea life activity on the relationship between the marital role importance and family health. For this purpose, a survey was conducted from April 20, 2018 to April 30, 2018, targeting middle-aged married people aged 40 to 64 years, and data from 278 persons who practice tea life in their daily lives with their spouses were selected for the final analysis. The major findings of the study can be summarized as follows. First, a couple’s tea life exhibited the characteristics of communication channels or activity, through which two people share time while enjoying positive feelings and finding familial meaning. Second, the couples’ tea life activity had a significant positive correlation with the marital role importance and family health. Third, mediation regression analysis was conducted to determine if middle-aged couples’ tea life activity had a mediating effect on the marital role importance and family health, and the result showed that couple’s tea life activity had a partial mediating effect. Based on these results, the current study proposed means to promote a couples’ tea life activity to function as intermediation for connecting the marital role importance and family health.
