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KMID : 0614420100350010051
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Mental Health & Social Work
2010 Volume.35 No. 1 p.51 ~ p.80
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Study for the Relationship between Disability Discrimination Experience and Depression of People with Disabilities -Focusing on the Mediating Role of Self-Esteem and the Moderating Role of Social Support
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Jeon Ji-Hye
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Abstract
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People with disabilities’ experience with discrimination experience leads to the deprivation of the societal and economic opportunities. At the same time, they affect the people with disabilities, psychologically and mental health-wise as well. However, not all the people with disabilities experience same degree of depression. This research was conducted to identify the influence of the people with disabilities’ experience with discrimination on the mental health and to identify the set of mediators or moderators that exist, and how these in turn affect the depression level. Data from the Korean Welfare Panel collected in 2008 was used for the research. Total of 404 research subjects, who were adults with disabilities were subjected to the analysis. Baron and Kenny (1986)’s method for analyzing the effect of the mediators through regression analysis and Aiken and West (1991)’s method for analyzing the effect of moderators were used. As for the results, level of people with disabilities’ depression was higher as the frequency of people with disabilities’ experience with discrimination was higher. Self-esteem concerning this relationship manifested the effect of mediating in parts. Among the social supports, interaction among unofficial financial support and experience of discrimination manifested moderating effect. Through this conclusion, it was possible to prove that the reason that the people with disabilities are psychologically depressed is because of the society’s discrimination against their disability. Likewise, psychological consultation for the people with disabilities needs to take place with the aim of increasing their self-esteem. As for the social support for the people with disabilities, the conclusion reached is that the nation should provide financial support in the public domain, in order to decrease the depression of people with disabilities.
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KEYWORD
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disability discrimination experience, depression, self-esteem, social support
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