A study of Community Quality of Life for Youth with Sensory or Physical Disabilities in Taiwan

A survey on community quality of life with 270 youth with physical or sensory disabilities was conducted across the state by a well-developed community quality-of-life reliable questionnaire. Seven latent constructs that related to community quality-of-life outcomes were determined by confirmatory factor analysis.

They are mobility/independence, economic integration, objective environment, subjective environment, recreation/leisure, community involvement or interpersonal relationships, and family support. In addition, stepwise multiple regression revealed that the variables of gender, disability level,, marriage, socioeconomic status of the parents, living area, and employment experience of youth with disabilities significantly correlated with their community quality of life, except for biological age, educational level, living arrangement, and ty pe of disability.