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KMID : 1001720090190010167
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Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
2009 Volume.19 No. 1 p.167 ~ p.186
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Predicting Employment Outcomes among Industrially Injured Workers from Acceptance of Disability, Severity, and Location of Disability
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Kim Hee-Young
Jo Song-Jae
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of acceptance, severity, and location of disability to employment outcomes among industrially injured workers. Two-hundred and ten people who were industrially injured participated in this study. The results of binary logistic regression analysis revealed that a significant relationship exists between employment outcomes and containment of disability effects subscale. That is, those who limit his/her disability effects to impaired areas of his/her life will be 1.293 times more likely to achieve and maintain a gainful employment as compared to those who unnecessarily spread his or her disability effects to other areas of life. However, no significant relationship were found between employment outcomes and enlarging the scope of value, subordination of physique, and transformation of comparative values to asset values. Results of chi-square analysis have revealed that there is a significant relationship between severity and body part of disability and employment outcomes among people with industrial injury. In other words, those with mild disability and those with back injury were found to be more likely to acquire and maintain a gainful employment than those with more severe injury and those with disabilities other than back injury. Suggestions for future research and for the rehabilitation practice are discussed.
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KEYWORD
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industrially injured workers, acceptance of disability, successful employment
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