Kim Shin Jeong, Kang Kyung Ah
Department of Nursing, Hallym University, Chunchon, South Korea.
J Adv Nurs. 2003 Jul;43(2):145-55; discussion 155-7. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02689_1.x.
Korean views and attitudes towards disabled people are generally negative. Because of this, living with life-long disabilities in Korea means pain for oneself and one's family. Also family members think that the disability is detrimental to their social standing and try to hide the disabled person. Koreans believe that having disabilities is the result of the geomantic system of topography, used in choosing auspicious sites for graves and houses, sins committed in a previous existence, the fault of an ancestor, or a wicked ghost.
The objective of the study was to provide an understanding of how adolescents with physical disabilities see meaning in their lives, with the ultimate aim of encouraging these adolescents to find their own values and meanings of life.
An inductive and descriptive study to understand the perspective of adolescents with physical disabilities.
Eighty-eight adolescents with physical disabilities were interviewed in depth and content analysis was used for analyzing the data.
Adolescents with physical disabilities in Korea experience meaning in their lives when society accepts their existential problems and allows them to live a normal life. This normality includes helping others (as a friend or as a volunteer) and creating opportunities to achieve their own goals in life. The main categories in the findings were 'accomplishment', 'social adaptation', 'improvement of the quality of life', 'good deeds', 'sincerity', 'satisfaction', 'having a relationship', 'achievement of self', 'perception of one's own usefulness', 'rehabilitation', and 'gain recognition by others'.
Adolescents with physical disabilities can understand the meaning of their lives when meaning is framed in the context of being a social issue, and when they are allowed to clarify their own values. Nursing intervention programmes need to be developed to improve the quality of physically disabled adolescents' lives.
韩国人对残疾人的看法和态度总体上是负面的。因此，在韩国患有终身残疾意味着本人及其家庭都要承受痛苦。而且家庭成员认为残疾有损他们的社会地位，于是试图隐瞒家中的残疾人。韩国人认为，残疾是地形风水系统所致（该系统用于选择坟墓和房屋的吉祥地点），或是前世犯下的罪孽、祖先的过错，抑或是恶鬼作祟。
本研究的目的是了解身体残疾的青少年如何看待其生活的意义，最终目标是鼓励这些青少年找到自己的人生价值和意义。
一项归纳性描述性研究，旨在了解身体残疾青少年的观点。
对88名身体残疾的青少年进行了深入访谈，并采用内容分析法对数据进行分析。
在韩国，当社会接受身体残疾青少年的生存问题并允许他们过上正常生活时，他们便能体会到生活的意义。这种正常生活包括帮助他人（作为朋友或志愿者）以及创造机会实现自己的人生目标。研究结果的主要类别包括“成就”“社会适应”“生活质量改善”“善举”“真诚”“满足”“拥有人际关系”“自我实现”“感知自身有用性”“康复”以及“获得他人认可”。
当生活的意义被置于社会问题的背景下，且身体残疾的青少年能够阐明自己的价值观时，他们便能理解自己生活的意义。需要制定护理干预计划以提高身体残疾青少年的生活质量。
