A Study on the Quality of Work Life of Youth with Disabilities in Taiwan

Among the 240 subjects, there are 140 subjects whose work life quality are completely assessed by the self-devised research instrument, the Quality of Work Life Scale. In addition to this questionnaire-cum-interview study approach, another seven cases are under direct observation, interview, and assessment.

The work life quality if these seven individuals are described by self-devised Work Life Quality Profile. The research findings include that: (1) most of the subjects are holding non- skill or semi-skill jobs; (2) age, gender, severity of retardation, marriage status, parent\'s socioeconomic status are not proved being the significant variables of their work life quality after examined statistically by t-test or ANOVA; (3) those retarded employees with higher payment, better fringe benefit coverage are more satisfied with their work life; (4) most of the seven cases under direct observation have demonstrated acceptable work life quality, especially in the aspects of \"work performance\" and of \"job satisfaction\".