2020 Volume 61 Issue 2 Pages 16-30
This study aimed to clarify the factors affecting the employment of the mothers of children with disabilities and to examine ways to support their families. A questionnaire survey was conducted on the mothers of children enrolled in special schools, receiving 266 effective responses. Having dependent variables of employed or unemployed and sense of work restriction, hierarchical multiple regression analysis and hierarchical binary logistic regression analysis were executed. These analyses validated that the medical care of the child had the greatest effect on a mother’s employment. If medical care was required, then the mother was likely unemployed, and her sense of work restriction was high. As for an employed mother, the higher her use of welfare services and the higher her quantitative satisfaction level of welfare services, the lower her sense of work restriction became. Conversely, the higher the required level of assistance for the target child and the greater the recognition of being restricted by her role as a mother, the higher her sense of work restriction became. These results stressed the importance of coordinating welfare services to support the needs of both children and their families.
