Interest people with mild intellectual disability for employment

Abstract

The overall goal of the research is to determine a persons with intellectual disability the degree of interest for employment and what kind of jobs would they like to do. Pilot research was realized on a sample of 28 persons with mild intellectual disability, 17 or 60,7% of male and 11 or 39% of female gender, aged between 19 and 53, with different educational structure, and with or without work experience. Questionnaire is made of 18 questions During the data processing we have used descriptive statistics methods, non-parametric tests (Chi-square and Kruskal-Wallis Test) and reliable analysis. The results of the research point on the fact that only few of the participants have work experience, did not apply for the job market and do not ordinary look out for a job in the announcements. Most of the participants who are moderately interested for employment is not sure with the what kind of challenges they will encounter in the working world. Whether they would be able to find a job they like, a job that is well paid and not hard to do, a job that they would be able to do for 4 hours the most, whether they would have enough free time or work on the weekends. The male participants are more interested in getting a job than female, especially the ones that have graduated high school or already had a job. There are not troubled by the possibility of hard work or not being the best paid. They would work full time jobs, sometimes even on weekends if that is needed.

Opšti cilj istraživanja je da se utvrdi stepen zainteresovanosti osoba sa intelektualnom ometenošću (IO) za zaposlenje i kakve poslove bi oni voleli da obavljaju. Pilot istraživanje je realizovano na uzorku od 28 ispitanika sa lakom intelektualnom ometenošću (LIO), 17 ili 60,7% muškog i 11 ili 39,3% ženskog pola, starosne dobi od 19 do 53 godina, različite obrazovne strukture, sa i bez radnog iskustva. Upitnik se sastoji iz 18 pitana. Prilikom obrade podataka primenjene su metode deskriptivne statistike, neparametrijski testovi (Hi-kvadrat i Kruskal-Valis test) i relijabilna analiza. Rezultati istraživanja ukazuju da najveći broj ispitanika nema radno iskustvo, nije prijavljen na tržište rada, niti redovno prati konkurse za posao. Najveći broj ispitanika koji je osrednje zainteresovan za zaposlenje nije siguran sa kakvim izazovima će se susresti u svetu rada, tj. da li će moći da nađu posao koji vole, koji je dobro plaćen i nije težak, da rade najviše 4 sata dnevno, da li će imati dovoljno slobodnog vremena i da li će morati da rade vikendom. Muškarci su zainteresovaniji za zaposlenje od žena (p=0,024), posebno oni ispitanici koji imaju završenu srednju stručnu školu (p=0,050) i koji su već bili zaposleni (p=0,000). Za njih ne predstavlja problem da rade teže poslove koji ne moraju biti najbolje plaćeni, puno radno vreme i da rade vikendom, ako zatreba.