정신지체인 지역사회 적응기술요인과 척도에 관한 연구

A Study on The Development of The Community Living Skills Inventory and It s Relationship with Other Demographic Variables

This study was aimed to develop a community living skill s inventory for vocational rehabilitation of individuals with developmental disabilities. The research participants were 289 persons with developmental disabilities including mental retardation and 1,356 elementally school children. For the specific goals of the study to provide proper vocational rehabilitation services efficiently for individuals with developmental disabilities. important variables for community living skills were analyzed. The Community Living-skills Inventory(CLIN) was devised temporarily by selecting and examining scale items. The current researchers also figured out important variables affecting community living skills. This inventory was revealed to be reliable and valid for utilizing to assess the degree on vocational preparation of persons with developmental disabilities. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: First of all. the category of CLIN is composed of the following 9 areas; ① the basic concept, ② the functional signs and symbols, ③ the house management, ④ the health and security, ⑤ the public services, ⑥ the time and measurement, ⑦ the budgeting, ⑧ the career life, ⑨ the personal relations and leisure life. Items of each category determined are ranged from 18 to 24 scale items totaling 179. Secondly. the reliability coefficients ranged from .6672 to .9679: the basic concept is .8905, the daily living is .9664 the job adaptation skill is .9749. As a results of the validity measures of CLIN, each category of the shows high relationships with other criteria. For the content validity purpose, several conference meetings by 3 professors at S university, C university in Seoul and at D university in Taegu, and 9 job experienced field practitioners were organized. Criteria-referenced validities are established with IQ scores, social ages, and BRS scores of the participants. Also, construct validities were established using factor analyses. Third, a service of t-tests and analyses of variance were carried out to compare the groups difference. The 6th graders of general population group got the highest level and ranked next the 5th, 3rd, 4th, 2nd and individuals with mental retardation in order of importance. Fourth, regional factors, The experience of employment and numbers of family had effects on the degree to which individuals with disabilities live independently in their community. Individuals with mental retardation who showed the high scores in intelligence tests had also high scores social skill, social age and BRS scores as a evidence of good adjustment. The scores obtained by two groups, persons with developmental disabilities and elemental school children, had quite high interrelations with the following variables: the basic concepts, the functional sign and symbols, the house managements, the health and security, the public services, the time and measurement, the budgeting, the career life, the personal relations and leisure life. Intelligence and BRS scores, social age and social skills had a considerable influence on community living skills. And BRS, intelligence, social age and disability grade had significant effect on community living skills in the categories of public services, time and measurement, money care, job life, personal relations and leisure life. As results of this research study, the rehabilitation services that improve the intelligence level and community living skills should be developed for the successful vocational rehabilitation To improve adaptation skills which should be acquired, the rehabilitation service delivery system has to be improved.