Underemployment among mothers of children with intellectual disabilities
Chou, Y.-C., Kröger, T., & Pu, C.-Y. (2018). Underemployment among mothers of children with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 31(1), 152-158. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12336
Date
2018Discipline
YhteiskuntapolitiikkaIkääntymisen ja hoivan tutkimuksen huippuyksikköHyvinvoinnin tutkimuksen yhteisöSocial and Public PolicyCentre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and CareSchool of WellbeingCopyright
© 2017 Wiley. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Wiley. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
Background
Mothers with lifelong care responsibilities might involuntarily be non-employed or work part-time, both of which are defined as “underemployment.” This study aimed to investigate who these underemployed mothers are and what are the factors associated with such employment hardship when having a child with intellectual disability (ID).
Method
An interview survey was conducted in 2011 in two local authorities of Taiwan on 876 working-age mothers with a child with intellectual disability; 514 of them were working part-time/non-employed and chosen as participants of this study.
Results
The mothers with a younger child with intellectual disability, a higher level of education, a lower level of family income and more family members with disabilities were more likely to be underemployed compared with the mothers who were voluntarily working part-time/non-employed.
Conclusions
The underemployed mothers were more likely to have financial difficulty and heavy caregiving l
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Publisher
Blackwell Publishing LtdISSN Search the Publication Forum
1360-2322Keywords
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