How entrepreneurship drives life satisfaction among people with intellectual disabilities (PwID): a mixed-method approach
The high and persistent unemployment rates of people with intellectual disabilities (PwID) reveal the wide gap that still remains to be bridged. Entrepreneurship combinedly with a high enterprising tendency could improve PwID’s life satisfaction. A mixed-method approach was sed, based on questionn...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Repositorio: | RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/46448 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-11-2022-1568 https://hdl.handle.net/10578/46448 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Enterprising tendency Entrepreneurship Intellectual disabilities Life quality Life satisfaction |
| Sumario: | The high and persistent unemployment rates of people with intellectual disabilities (PwID) reveal the wide gap that still remains to be bridged. Entrepreneurship combinedly with a high enterprising tendency could improve PwID’s life satisfaction. A mixed-method approach was sed, based on questionnaires and structured face-to-face interviews on thirty-seven PwID who had recently become entrepreneurs. Data were firstly quantitatively analyzed using structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), and qualitative data was used to enable robust findings.The entrepreneurial tendency of PwID who had recently become entrepreneurs was found to be a positive to their life quality, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. This study revealed that entrepreneurship among PwID who had high enterprising tendency enhances their life quality, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. However, further research could evaluate whether becoming an entrepreneur is in itself enough to change PwID’s life to better, such that a comparison could be done between PwID who become entrepreneurs and PwID who have a salaried job.New aspects in the design of public social policies to improve PwID’s life satisfaction are suggested. These include the facilitation of both entrepreneurship and enterprising tendency for PwID to enhance their life satisfact. |
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