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- Title
Stigmatizing Attributions and Vocational Rehabilitation Outcomes of People with Disabilities.
- Authors
Yui-Chung Chan, Jacob; Keegan, John P.; Ditchman, Nicole; Gonzalez, Rene; Xi Zheng, Lisa; Chan, Fong
- Abstract
Objective: To determine whether employment outcomes of people with disabilities can be predicted by the social-cognitive/attribution theory of stigmatization. Design: Ex post facto design using data mining technique and logistic regression analysis. Participants: Data from 40,585 vocational rehabilitation (VR) consumers were extracted from the Rehabilitation Services Administration Case Services Report (Form 911). Results: In Study 1, data mining results revealed that the most significant predictor of employment outcome was type of disability. Consistent with the social-cognitive/attribution theory of stigmatization, the employment rate of people with physical disabilities (68.5%) was found to be significantly higher than that of people with mental disabilities (56.6%). In Study 2, results from logistic regression analyses indicated that VR services could improve outcomes for subpopulations of people with disabilities with low employment rates. Conclusion: Employment outcomes of VR consumers were found to match the hierarchy of attitudes toward disability predicted by the social-cognitive/attribution theory. However, even with subpopulations with the lowest employment rates, VR services were found to improve employment outcomes.
- Subjects
CHI-squared test; COGNITION; CONFIDENCE intervals; EMPLOYMENT; PEOPLE with disabilities; SOCIAL stigma; VOCATIONAL rehabilitation; DATA mining; LOGISTIC regression analysis; LABELING theory; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; RELATIVE medical risk; RETROSPECTIVE studies; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio
- Publication
Rehabilitation Research, Policy & Education, 2011, Vol 25, Issue 4, p135
- ISSN
2168-6653
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1891/2168-6653.25.4.135