Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors' Attitudes Toward Self- Employment: Attitudes and Their Effects on the Use of Self- Employment as an Employment Option
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چکیده
Quality of life is intimately related to an individual's major life activities (Antonovsky, 1987). For many individuals, productive employment is of central importance. Unfortunately, people with disabilities confront many difficulties in finding or keeping work; with overall unemployment rates for this population as high as 50%, and as high as 60% for people with disabilities living in rural areas (Rural Institute on Disabilities, 1993).
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