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KMID : 0607320100190030241
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Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
2010 Volume.19 No. 3 p.241 ~ p.251
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Attitude of Persons with an Mental Disability to Marriage: Q Methodological Approach
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Kim Myung-Hee
An Eun-Seon
Kang Eun-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the attitude of persons with an mental disability to marriage.
Methods: The Q-methodology which provides a method of analyzing the individual’s subjectivity was used. The 30 participants classified 36 selected Q-statements on a 9 point scale to make a normal distribution. The collected data was analyzed by a PC Quanl Program.
Results: Four types of attitude of persons with an mental disability to marriage were identified. Type I: Actively supportive-resistant against social bias, Type II: Passively supportivereliant on others, Type III: Intensively desiring-less sense of reality, Type IV: Controlling desire-more sense of reality.
Conclusion: The results of this study suggest a need develop a variety of programs specifically designed for each type of attitude to change attitudes to marriage for persons with an mental disability.
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KEYWORD
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Mentally disabled persons, Marriage, Attitude
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