The Association between Cultural Leisure Experience and Life Satisfaction of Adult with Developmental Disability in South Korea: Mediating Effects of Positive Acceptance of Disability

The purpose of this study is to examine the association between cultural leisure experience and life satisfaction of adult with developmental disability in South Korea through mediating effects of positive acceptance of disability. The cultural leisure experience is known as for well-being life of adult with developmental disability, nonetheless, in South Korea, it is very hardly to them since personal issue as well as social structural problems.

In that sense, this study used the data which 2016 Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled in South Korea, we selected the 331 case in total who over 19 years old with developmental disability(Intellectual, Autism). For the analyze, the PROCESS Macro(Hayes, 2013) was used for verify of mediating effect of positive acceptance of disability.

The result of this study is as follow. First, the cultural leisure experience affected positively to positive acceptance of disability (p<.001). Second, both of the cultural leisure experience and positive acceptance of disability affected positively to life satisfaction (p<.01, p<.001). Third, the positive acceptance of disability mediated between cultural leisure experience and life satisfaction on the bootstrapping method.

From this result, we proposed the cultural leisure experience program should be enforced for well-being and independent living of adult with developmental disability within policy and practical issue.