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MUNOZ VALDES, Yohanina Andrea; POBLETE TOLOZA, Yohanna del Pilar  y  JIMENEZ FIGUEROA, Andrés. Quality of family life and subjective well-being in young people with intellectual disability in school with special education of the Talca City. Interdisciplinaria [online]. 2012, vol.29, n.2, pp.271-286. ISSN 1668-7027.

The present study aimed to identify the relationship between the quality of Family Life, Family Functioning and Subjective Well-being, along with the factors of Quality of Family Life in relation to subjective well-being in young people with intellectual disabilities from a special education setting and work in the city of Talca (Chile). The sample consisted of 53 young people aged 16 to 24 years and 53 representatives, parents or guardians. All youth in the sample have been diagnosed with intellectual disabilities, of which 52.8% intellectual disability manifested sole predictor of their condition, while the remaining 47.2% corresponds to this co morbidity with other types of disability associated. The levels of this condition are ranging from mild reaching 37.7%, followed by moderate 50.9%, and finally severe and deep with 3.8%. In order to measure the study variables they were administered four instruments: (1) Scale of Quality of Family Life (Verdugo, Sainz & Rodriguez, 2009), (2) Family Functioning Questionnaire (Smilkstein, Ashworth, & Montano, 1982), (3) The Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larder & Griffin, 1984), and (4) Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999). Considering previous studies, we formulated the following hypotheses: (1) At higher levels of life satisfaction, higher levels of subjective happiness in young people with intellectual disabilities, (2) there is a significant positive relationship between Family Functioning and Happiness Levels Subjective life satisfaction in young people with intellectual disabilities and (3) there are significant positive relationships between the factors of quality of family life and the components of subjective well-being in young people with intellectual disabilities. For the study used a descriptive methodology and cross-sectional correlation seeking to establish concomitant relationships between variables. In relation to the variable quality of family life on two levels, importance and satisfaction, there is evidence that parents in the sample assigned more importance to the quality of family life to the satisfaction of it, because the parents at 49,1% assign more importance to the quality of family life in relation to 24.5% assigned to the satisfaction of the quality of family life. The women assigned greater importance to the quality of family life and satisfaction of this compared to men. With regard to family functioning, youths with intellectual disabilities normofunctionals consider the interactions of their respective families; those who have a moderate level of intellectual disability are those that show greater family functioning. Women perceive greater family functioning compared to men in the sample. With regard to subjective well-being into its two components, subjective happiness and life satisfaction, it appears that youths with intellectual disabilities remain a median subjective happiness and life satisfaction, feeling more satisfied than happy. It is observed that those with a moderate level of intellectual disability have a higher perception of subjective happiness and life satisfaction. The main results show a significant relationship between the importance of the quality of family life satisfaction and the quality of family life (r = .402; p < .01), between subjective happiness and life satisfaction (r = .457: p < .01) and between subjective happiness and family functioning (r = .388; p < .05). The factors of perceived quality of family life for parents: family interaction, parental role, physical and material, emotional and support for people with disabilities do not maintain a relationship with subjective happiness and life satisfaction perceived by young people with intellectual disabilities.

Palabras clave : Intellectual disability; Family life; Subjective well-being; Happiness; Family functioning.

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