Investigating Mental Well-being Levels of Physically Disabled People Compared to People without Disabilities

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10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_275How to use a DOI?

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Disability; well-being; psychoanalysis; mental health

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization (2022), about 15 percent of the world’s population is affected by disability, and the number is increasing year over year. It is well known that people with physical disabilities have limitations in certain aspects of their lives, but do they have higher or lower mental well-being compared to able-bodied people? Do they appear more negative and complain more about life than healthy people? The facts may not be as simple as the stereotype. Since both of my parents are special needs educators, I have had the opportunity to closely observe several physically disabled people and learned about their lives since childhood. I found that a large proportion of physically disabled people seem to have positive attitudes towards life, even more than the healthy people around them. Therefore, I chose to conduct a study to explore whether physically disabled people have higher or lower levels of mental well-being than able-bodied people. For this study, questionnaires measuring mental well-being levels were distributed to physically disabled and able-bodied people, and face-to-face interviews were conducted with several physically-disabled people.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinpa Huang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - Investigating Mental Well-being Levels of Physically Disabled People Compared to People without Disabilities
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2390
EP  - 2400
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_275
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_275
ID  - Huang2022
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