abstract: 'People with chronic physical disabilities participate less in both paid

  and voluntary work and are less satisfied with their lives than people

  without health problems. Governments and scientists have suggested that

  participation in employment is the main road to well-being. We analysed

  national survey data on the participation in work and satisfaction with

  life, comparing people with a chronic illness and a physical disability

  (n = 603) to people with a chronic illness but without a physical

  disability (n = 1199) and the general population (n = 6128) in the

  Netherlands. The results show that the relationship between happiness

  and work is different for people with a chronic illness and a physical

  disability, as compared to the other two populations. Fewer people with

  a chronic illness and disability were categorized as `satisfied people

  with work'' (i.e. participating in work and satisfied with their life),

  while most people belonged to a group of `satisfied people without work''

  and, surprisingly, not to the expected group of `dissatisfied people

  without work''. In order to explain this exceptional distribution we

  modelled satisfied participation in work as an outcome of a balance

  between personal resources and barriers. By means of discriminant

  regression analysis, we identified the severity of motor disability as

  the main barrier, and education level and age, as the main resource

  factors that distinguish between `satisfied people with work'' and others

  among the group of people with a chronic illness and a physical

  disability. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'van Campen, C (Corresponding Author), Netherlands Inst Social Res SCP,
  POB 16164, NL-2500 BD The Hague, Netherlands.

  van Campen, Cretien, Netherlands Inst Social Res SCP, NL-2500 BD The Hague, Netherlands.

  Cardol, Mieke, NIVEL Netherlands Inst Hlth Serv Res, Utrecht, Netherlands.'
author: van Campen, Cretien and Cardol, Mieke
author-email: c.van.campen@scp.nl
author_list:
- family: van Campen
  given: Cretien
- family: Cardol
  given: Mieke
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.04.014
files: []
issn: 0277-9536
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE \& MEDICINE
keywords: 'Work; Life satisfaction; Physical disabilities; Chronic illnesses; The

  Netherlands'
keywords-plus: SPINAL-CORD-INJURY; QUALITY-OF-LIFE; SCALE
language: English
month: JUL
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '27'
orcid-numbers: Cardol, Mieke/0000-0002-7771-770X
pages: 56-60
papis_id: f2635cf81470f81eae8d1c86b44fde07
ref: Vancampen2009whenwork
times-cited: '31'
title: 'When work and satisfaction with life do not go hand in hand: Health barriers
  and personal resources in the participation of people with chronic physical disabilities'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000268046400009
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '9'
volume: '69'
web-of-science-categories: 'Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health; Social Sciences,

  Biomedical'
year: '2009'