A STUDY ON PERSONAL RELATIONS OF PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED WORKERS IN INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS

Abstract

Personal relations of 111 physically handicapped workers were investigated in relation to their personality traits at first, and then job factors, morale and other factors about the workers and their working places. The results obtained were as follows. 1. Their personal relations were closely related to personality traits such as deference, affiliation, abasement, nurturance and endurance. High score group of these personality traits showed better personal relations than low score group. According to discriminant analysis, three personali ty traits (deference, affiliation, endurance) discriminated between good personal relations and bad ones, and about 90% of subjects were correctly classified into either good or bad ones. 2. Following 8 factors which might have effects on their personal relations were investigated by using multiple regression analysis: job factors (job skills and knowledge, job satisfaction attitude to job, responsibility to job), molale, worker's age, degree of handicap, school career, working period, kinds of job, scale of working place. It was found that job factors and morale were more important factors to good personal relations than the others.