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Direct linkPruijssers, Addy; Meijel, Berno; Maaskant, Marian; Teerenstra, Steven; van Achterberg, Theo – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
Background: People with intellectual disabilities are vulnerable to develop psychopathology (in particular anxiety) and related challenging behaviour. Method: A comparative multiple case study with an experimental and a control condition. Results: The application of the guideline showed a trend of decreases of internalizing problems (P = 0.07) and…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Behavior Problems, Anxiety, Comparative Analysis
Perry, Adrienne; Isaacs, Barry – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2015
Background: Family Quality of Life (FQOL) is an important construct in the Intellectual Disabilities field. Several measures exist, including one developed by an international group, the Family Quality of Life Survey-2006 (FQOLS-2006; Brown et al.2006). However, the psychometric properties of this measure have yet to be fully investigated. This…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Surveys, Intellectual Disability, Family (Sociological Unit)
Chou, Yueh-Ching; Kröger, Teppo; Pu, Cheng-yun – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Background: The universal breadwinner model means both parents are employed; while the universal caregiver model implies that the father's hours of caregiving are equal or higher to those of the mother. This study aims to examine the hypothesis that the universal caregiver model is more related to the overall well-being of mothers of children with…
Descriptors: Fathers, Child Rearing, Hypothesis Testing, Well Being
McGlinchey, Eimear; McCallion, Philip; Burke, Eilish; Carroll, Rachel; McCarron, Mary – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
Background: The benefits of being in employment are well documented; however, underemployment is a critical issue for people with intellectual disability (ID). Some individuals perceive themselves as being in employment when in fact they are attending a non-work site such as a day service. The impact that this perception of employment has on other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Retardation, Underemployment, Day Programs
Felce, David; Perry, Jonathan; Kerr, Michael – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2011
Background: The quality of life of adults with intellectual disabilities living in the family home is an under-researched area. The current study compared indicators of household and community activity between adults living in family homes and those in out-of-family placements. Methods: Four datasets were merged to produce information on the…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, Place of Residence, Mental Retardation, Quality of Life
Beyer, Stephen; Brown, Tony; Akandi, Rachel; Rapley, Mark – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2010
Background: Policy objectives for people with intellectual disabilities include day service modernization and the promotion of paid employment and quality of life. Quality of life is under represented as an outcome measure in vocational research. This research compares subjective and objective quality of life, and quality of work environment for…
Descriptors: Supported Employment, Employees, Mental Retardation, Quality of Life
Beadle-Brown, Julie; Murphy, Glynis; DiTerlizzi, Michele – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
Background: Despite the acknowledged difficulties of measuring satisfaction for people with intellectual disabilities, the current study examined the quality of life (QoL) of the Camberwell Cohort, a total population sample of people with severe intellectual disability and/or autism [Wing & Gould, "Epidemiology and Classification," 9, 1979, 11].…
Descriptors: Independent Living, Life Satisfaction, Severe Mental Retardation, Autism
Chou, Yueh-Ching; Lin, Li-Chan; Pu, Cheng-Yun; Lee, Wan-Ping; Chang, Shu-Chuan – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
Background: The disability policy in Taiwan has traditionally emphasized residential care in large institutions and, more recently, medium-sized group homes. This paper compares the relative costs, services provided and outcomes between the traditional institutions, medium-sized group homes and new small-scale community living units that were…
Descriptors: Costs, Residential Institutions, Group Homes, Mental Retardation
Verdugo, M. A.; Jordan de Urries, F. B.; Jenaro, C.; Caballo, C.; Crespo, M. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
Aim: This study investigate what characteristics of supported employment increase quality of life and whether quality of life is higher in supported employment workers or the sheltered ones in Spain. Typicalness, the degree to which the characteristics of a job are the same as those of co-workers without a disability in the same company, was…
Descriptors: Supported Employment, Mental Retardation, Quality of Life, Work Environment
