A Study of Community Quality of Life for Youth with Disabilities in Taiwan

A survey on community quality of life with 240 youth with intellectual disabilities was conducted across the state by a well-developed community quality-of-life reliable questionnaire. Seven latent constructs that related to community quality-of-life outcomes were determined by confirmatory factor analysis.

They are mobility/independence, economic integration, objective environment, subjective environment, recreation/leisure, community involvement or interpersonal relationships, and family support. In addition, stepwise multiple regression revealed that the variables of gender, disability level, type of disability, marriage, living arrangement, living area, educational level, and employment experience of youth with disabilities significantly correlated with their community quality of life, except for biological age and socioeconomic status of the parents.