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Relationship between the Environmental Factors and Social Participation of Individuals with Disabilities based on the ICF

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2015, 16(1), pp.87-110
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Lim, Hae-Gyeoung 1 Park Jae Kook 1 Kim, Eunra 1 Jang, Jin-Soon 2

1부산대학교
2대구대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study were to investigate the relationship between the environmental factors and social participation of individuals with disabilities based on the ICF to propose the direction to establish the policies for the individuals with disabilities. To this end, 250 subjects were asked to complete two questionnaires; one was on the recognition on the environmental factors of individuals with disabilities, the other was on the status of the social participation. A total of 214 responses were used to analyze data, and the research findings were as follows. First, the level of recognition on the environmental factors was positive. In particular, the level of recognition on the family’s attitude was the highest, on the other hand, the level of recognition on the service·system·policy was lowest. As well, there were statistically significant differences according to several sociodemographic variables such as type of disability, income level, license status, etc. Second, the level of the social participation was more or less high, in detail, the level of interpersonal relationship was the highest. And there were significant differences according to subjects’ the degree of daily activities, income level, rate of disability, and the license status. Third, there were statistically positive relationship between all of the subdomains of environmental factors and those of social participation. Based on these results, it is possible to establish the practical policies and transition programs for the individuals with disabilities.

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