The effect of employment status on people with a mental disability and on daily life satisfaction: The mediating effect
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The effect of employment status on people with a mental disability and on daily life satisfaction: The mediating effect of acceptance of disability Youn-Joo Um 1 & Yun-Jung Choi 1 Accepted: 9 October 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract This study examined the mediating effects of acceptance of disability on the relationship between employment and daily life satisfaction in people with a mental disability. Participants included 160 subjects with a mental disability who responded to the second wave of the Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled (2017). The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and hierarchical regression analyses. The results showed that employment status and acceptance of disability had a significant effect on daily life satisfaction. Acceptance of one’s disability had an indirect mediating effect on the relationship between employment status, people with a mental disability, and daily life satisfaction. These findings suggest a need for practical interventions and policy implementation to improve the daily life satisfaction of people with a mental disability. Keywords Mental disability . Employment . Acceptance of disability . Daily life satisfaction . Rehabilitation
Introduction The pursuit of satisfaction in life is the basic and ultimate goal of all individuals, and quality of life is regarded as their greatest concern. This satisfaction is engendered when one feels that one is a valuable member of society. The perception that one is socially valuable is linked to work. In particular, for people with a mental disability, work is vitally important at the individual, social, and national levels. Above all, work has the opportunity to foster the perception that one’s life has a purpose and value, safeguarding the dignity of people with disabilities and allowing them to contribute as valued members of society (Kim & Yun, 2013). Empirical studies have shown that people with a mental disability experience psychological Highlight • Acceptance of disability has been found to act as a mediation variable of how one’s employment affects one’s daily life satisfaction. • There is a need for the provision of services and programs that can help people with a mental disability manage their symptoms and recover from their conditions • Public policy should be developed, to create a social climate in which people with a mental disability recognize their rights as citizens, and not as disabled people. * Yun-Jung Choi [email protected] 1
Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-Dong, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul 06974, South Korea
stability and social integration through work (Bryson, Lysaker, & Bell, 2002). It is also known that work plays an important role in alleviating symptoms of mental disability (Dunn, Wewiorski, & Rogers, 2008). Within the field of mental health, the focus has been on facilitating the entry of people with mental disabilities into economic activity with mental health experts overseeing the results of such w
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