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The Effects of Self-esteem on Quality of Life among Wage Workers with Disabilities - Mediating Effects of Subjective Health Status and Disability Discrimination Experience -

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2017, 13(5), pp.15-34
  • DOI : 10.14251/crisisonomy.2017.13.5.15
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general
  • Received : March 10, 2017
  • Accepted : April 26, 2017
  • Published : May 31, 2017

Gyoung Hwa Kim 1 Shin, Eun-Kyoung 1

1단국대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study investigates how the self-esteem of wage workers with disability affects quality of life, focusing on the mediating effects of subjective health status and disability discrimination experience. The subjects of the analysis were 1,002 disabled wage workers in Korea from the 7th Disabled Employment Panel Data. The hierarchical linear regression model and Sobel test revealed that the self-esteem of wage workers with disability directly influenced on quality of life. In addition, the subjective health status of wage workers with disability positively and partially mediated the relationships between self-esteem and quality of life, while the disability discrimination experience of wage workers with disability negatively and partially mediated the relationships. Based on these results, this study makes suggestions for improving health-related status and reducing discrimination experience for the disabled.

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