Personality Characteristics and Employability of Mentally Retarded Adults
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 47 (3_suppl) , 1063-1067
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1980.47.3f.1063
Abstract
Work adjustment and personality factors were measured on 27 mentally retarded adults living in a halfway house. Successful employment ( n = 21) was related to conscientiousness, assertiveness, self-sufficiency, and imaginativeness as personality variables and die attitudinal variables of cooperativeness, punctuality, completing work on time, attendance, and quality of work. It appears that both personality and attitudinal variables have a major impact upon the successful employment of retarded persons. These factors may be quite independent of specific job skills.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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