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This study examined the canonical relationships between a set of life skill variables and a set of subjective well-being variables among a national sample of vocational rehabilitation clients in the USA. Self-direction, work tolerance, general employability, and self-care were related to physical, family and social, and financial well-being. This analysis also found that communication skill is related to family and social well-being, while psychological well-being is not related to any life skills in the set. The results showed that vocational rehabilitation services aimed to improve life functioning will lead to an improvement in subjective quality of life.
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Pessoas com Deficiência/reabilitação , Qualidade de Vida , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Satisfação Pessoal , Meio SocialRESUMO
PURPOSE: This study investigated perceptions of European American, African American, and Asian American rehabilitation graduate students in rehabilitation counselling by assessing their clinical impressions of African American, European American, and Asian American clients. This investigation is a continuation of several studies investigating clinical perceptions and client race. METHOD: Rehabilitation graduate students in rehabilitation counselling participating in this study were randomly assigned to one of three groups and were asked to review case materials for a client portrayed either as African American, European American, or Asian American. In pursuit of the main effect of client race, three separate MANOVA analyses were conducted: one for African American graduate students in rehabilitation counselling, one for Asian American graduate students in rehabilitation counselling, and one for European American graduate students in rehabilitation counselling. RESULTS: Contrary to previous findings from comparable research, MANOVA results did not reveal a significant main effect of bias by European American, Asian American, and African American graduate students in rehabilitation counselling against any of the three groups. CONCLUSIONS: Understanding of the conditions in which racial biases and subsequent judgmental errors are likely to occur (or not occur) should allow clinicians to recognise tendencies for their assessments to be influenced by client characteristics that elicit stereotypes and thereby to make more accurate judgements.