Emerging Issues Regarding the Employment and Career Development of Americans with Disabilities

Chan, Fong; Rumrill, Phillip D.

doi:10.3233/jvr-160805

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2016

DOI: 10.3233/jvr-160805

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Emerging Issues Regarding the Employment and Career Development of Americans with Disabilities

Fong Chan

Phillip D. Rumrill

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“…Paroki, & Sánchez Barajas, 2014;Anderson, McDonald, Edsall, Smith, & Taylor, 2015;Wik & Tøssebro, 2014) and are capable, skilled, and qualified to work (Krieger, Kinébanian, Prodinger, & Franziska, 2012;Taylor & Seltzer, 2011). Working improved autistics' health and quality of life (Beyer, 2016;Chan & Rumrill, 2016;Katz, Dejak, & Gal, 2015). Reducing social service-related costs and increasing disposable earnings, increases national health.…”

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Hiring Agents’ Beliefs: A Barrier to Employment of Autistics

Marie

2019

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Capable, qualified, and working-age (18-65) autistic adults experienced an 83% unemployment rate in the United States in 2017 resulting in extreme poverty and severely decreased quality of life. Research dating from 1957 to 2016 inferred hiring agents’ beliefs were the cause. In this multiple regression study, the nature of the relationship between hiring agents’ beliefs and their selection of qualified autistic candidates was explored through Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior to determine what hiring agent’s beliefs, if any, influence the selection of qualified autistic candidates to fill open positions. I used the Hiring Agent Survey Regarding Selection of Qualified Autistic Candidates to anonymously gather data from hiring agents throughout the contiguous United States. Known values of the independent variable, the beliefs influencing hiring agents, were summed and clustered against the TPB-predicted, percentage-based, continuous-level dependent variable, which was hiring agents’ selection of qualified autistic candidates. This statistically significant regression analysis, F(45, 73) = 36.067, p < .001, adj. R2 = .930, predicted the degree to which each control, normative, and behavioral belief influenced hiring agents’ selection. Hiring agents’ desire for mandated comprehensive organizational diversity, along with their negative stereotypical associations and fear of embarrassment, signify a need for substantive policy and strategic interventions. Results of such aggressive diversity initiatives could considerably improve the nation’s socioeconomic health and substantively increase autistics’ quality of life.

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Hiring Agents’ Beliefs: A Barrier to Employment of Autistics

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2019

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Psychometric Validation of the Job Satisfaction of Persons With Disabilities Scale

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Talbot²

2020

Rehabilitation Research Policy and Education

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ObjectiveTo evaluate the measurement structure of the Job Satisfaction of Persons with Disabilities Scale (JSPDS) in a sample of employed U.S. Americans with disabilities.DesignA quantitative descriptive design using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and correlational analysis.ParticipantsTwo hundred and fifty-nine individuals with disabilities who were employed at least 10 hours per week.ResultsThe EFA indicated a two-factor structure accounting for 42.99% of the total variance. The internal consistency reliability coefficients for the Integrated Work Environment and Job Quality factors were .87 and .74 respectively. Both factors correlated with selected employment and well-being variables in logical directions.ConclusionThe two-factor measurement structure of the JSPDS appears to be valid and interpretable, and can be used in research and clinical settings in order to develop effective strategies for long-term employment success of people with disabilities.

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Supporting employment consultants in their work with job seekers: A longitudinal study

Migliore

Butterworth

Lyons

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Emerging Issues Regarding the Employment and Career Development of Americans with Disabilities

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Hiring Agents’ Beliefs: A Barrier to Employment of Autistics

Hiring Agents’ Beliefs: A Barrier to Employment of Autistics

Psychometric Validation of the Job Satisfaction of Persons With Disabilities Scale

Supporting employment consultants in their work with job seekers: A longitudinal study

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