The purpose of this study is to examine the relations between social support, acceptance of disability, life satisfaction of people with disabilities and to examine acceptance of disability mediates between social support and life satisfaction of peop...
The purpose of this study is to examine the relations between social support, acceptance of disability, life satisfaction of people with disabilities and to examine acceptance of disability mediates between social support and life satisfaction of people with disabilities. A survey research was conducted for a sample of 335 adults with disabilities. The data was analyzed using AMOS 7.0 program utilizing maximum likelihood method. The results showed that the social support affected acceptance of disability. Also acceptance of disability affected life satisfaction of people with disabilities. Social support gave no direct effect to life satisfaction of people with disabilities. Here acceptance of disability mediated between social support and life satisfaction of people with disabilities. On the basis of these results, this paper provided discussions on acceptance of disability and life satisfaction of people with disabilities.