The Effect of Self-efficacy on Daily Life Satisfaction of Female Workers with Disabilities Who Have Spouses: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Job Satisfaction

This study was to investigate the mediating effect of job satisfaction in the effect of self-efficacy on the daily life satisfaction by female workers with disabilities who have spouses, to enhance daily life satisfaction of them. For this analysis, the data from 272 female workers with disability among 4,577 from the main versions for the 2nd wave data of 7th(2022) “Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled(PSED)” released by the Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities. It conducted frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, mediating effect analysis, SPSS and Macro PROCESS were used for data analysis. The summary of the research results is as follows. First, it was found that the self-efficacy of female disabled workers who have spouses had a significant positive effect on daily life satisfaction. Second, self-efficacy was found to have a positive effect on job satisfaction. Third, it was found that job satisfaction partially mediated between self-efficacy and daily life satisfaction. Based on the results, it delivered policy and practical implications to improve daily life satisfaction of female workers with disabilities who have spouses.