Residential Factors Affecting Quality of Life of People with Disabilities
AUTHORS
Eun Hye Jung,Ph. D candidate of Social Welfare, Jeonbuk National University, Korea
Yeong Hun Yeo,Associate professor of Social Welfare, Jeonbuk National University, Korea
ABSTRACT
This study examined factors affecting the quality of life of people with disabilities considering regional levels, especially reviewing the current situation by classifying types of residence into single households and two-or-more-persons households and comparing them. At personal level, identified such as senior people with disabilities, degree of disability, disability types, housing conditions, satisfaction with residential environment, burden on housing maintenance, anxiety over rental and public rental. Variables at the Regional level are live in the metropolitan area, the ratio of people with disability to population, the employment rate of disabled people, rental housing price index, financial autonomy rate and social welfare resources. Personal variables were statistically significant, and variables at the regional level were found to increase statistically significant in quality of life, with a loving in non-metropolitan areas, lower rental price index, and a higher financial autonomy rate. Chow test mainly used to identify different influences of variables among groups in comparison with slopes was conducted to see group differences depending on types of household. As a result, two-or-more-persons households experiences lower quality of life in terms of senior people with disabilities and public rental housing.
KEYWORDS
People with disabilities, Residential factors, Life satisfaction
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