A Study of Employment Status and Job Satisfaction of Street Performers with Visual Impairments

• Main Authors: Hsu, Chih-Yung, 徐智勇
• Other Authors: Lin, Ching-Jen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63665360251320033643

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士在職專班 === 102 === This study investigated the employment status and job satisfaction of street performers with visual impairments and differences in their job satisfaction across background variables. The research instrument was a self-developed “Questionnaire on Employment Status and Job Satisfaction of Street Performers with Visual Impairments”. The questionnaire was administered to 37 domestic street performers with visual impairments. Data were analyzed using methods including frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test. The main findings were as follows: 1. Street performance was a part-time job for most of the street performers with visual impairments. Few of them had received employment services, and most of them had to rely on assistance of others at work. 2. Most street performers with visual impairments provided popular musical performances solo at multiple places. Their income mainly came from rewards offered by the audience and was slightly higher than the basic wage. 3. Street performers with visual impairments reported a high degree of overall job satisfaction. They showed a high degree of satisfaction in value identification and professional achievement dimensions but a lower but still moderate level of satisfaction in income, welfare, and environmental support dimensions. 4. Job satisfaction of street performers with visual impairments differed across background variables: 1.Street performers with visual impairments under 30 of age showed higher satisfaction with income, welfare, and environmental support than those above 31 of age. 2.Street performers with congenital visual impairments showed significantly higher overall satisfaction and satisfaction with professional achievement than those with acquired visual impairments. 3.Street performers with visual impairments who had not gone through orientation training showed significantly higher satisfaction with professional achievement than those who had. Finally, based on the research results, this study provided suggestions to education, labor, social authorities, street performers with visual impairments and further studies.