Korean J Occup Health Nurs.
2011 May;20(1):46-54.
Employers Attitude for Mentally Disabled People
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- 1College of Nursing, Pusan National University, Korea. jss@pus.ac.kr
Abstract
- PURPOSE
The purpose of this study is to investigate employer's attitude towards mentally disabled people.
METHODS
The Lee (1996)'s questionnaire of community people's attitude on perception for mentally disabled people was used to collect data from 208 employers in Busan City. chi2-test and t-test were used to explore related factors of employer's attitude.
RESULTS
Employers having experience of hiring physically or mentally disabled people showed higher CAMI scores (p=.002). Especially, employers having experience of hiring mentally disabled people showed higher scores in four components of authoritarianism, benevolence, social restrictiveness, and community mental health ideology than any other groups. In addition, we found differences in employers' attitude on authoritarianism and benevolence according to types of industries and the number of employees.
CONCLUSION
We could suggest that employers experience of employing disabled and mentally disabled people could improve their positive attitude. Therefore, we call for various efforts and programs development to encourage employers to hire mentally disabled people.
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