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KMID : 1001720130230030113
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Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
2013 Volume.23 No. 3 p.113 ~ p.134
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An Analysis of the Relationships among the Factors that Have Effects on the Life Quality of People with Developmental Disabilities
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Kim Kil-Tae
Yoo Ae-Ran
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Abstract
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This study aims at providing basic materials for programs and policies meant to improve the life quality of people with developmental disabilities by examining the relationships among the factors that affect the life quality of people with developmental disabilities. The study explored the inter-relationships among the life quality (the degree of satisfaction) of 215 people with developmental disabilities and their household economic factors, discrimination factors and emotional factors based on the data collected through the 4th Panel Survey of Employment conducted jointly by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Employment Development Institute (2011). After that the study looked into the direct and indirect effects of the factors through the structural regression model. The collected data were analyzed using the AMOS 18 program, and then the statistical significance of estimated parameters were verified at the significance level of .05. The results of the study were summarized as follows. First, the household economic factor turned out to have a direct effect on the emotional factor, which was found to exert a direct effect on the discrimination factor. Second, the household economic factor and emotional factor were found to have effects on the life quality of the people with developmental disabilities through the medium of discrimination factor, and the household economic factor on the discrimination factor through the medium of the emotional factor. Third, it was found that the discrimination factor and household economic factor had no statistically significant effect on the life quality (the degree of satisfaction) of the people with developmental disabilities. Fourth, overall satisfaction explained most for the life quality of the people with developmental disabilities, followed by leisure activities, health, residence, and family relation. Lastly, the conclusion and its implications, suggestions for further research, and the limitations of the study were presented.
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KEYWORD
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people with developmental disabilities, life quality, experience of being discriminated, emotional factor, household economic factor
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