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CHAPTER I
Introduction
for employment of PWD’s like Republic Act (RA) No.10524 and implementing
Rules and regulations (IRR) of RA 10524 ensures that employees with disability
shall have the same terms and conditions of employment, name compensation,
bodied person. The person with disability shall not be discriminated on the basis
offices, or corporal ions, one percent (1%) of all position are reserved for person
with person with disability and private corporations with more than a hundred
(100) employees are encouraged to reserve at least one percent (1%) of all
positions for PWDs must also be upheld and must not create or impose any
burden on the PWD being employed. Republic Act No. 1179 is an act that aims
Republic Act No. 1179 aims to help the blind and other PWD’s in terms of
training and equip PWD’s with necessary skills for job based on the employment
population & housing (2010 CPH) show that out of 92.1 million household, 1.443
million Filipinos have some form of disability; the highest number of being in
Region VI-A on the Calabarzon region. The same research show’s that among
the age groups, the majority of PWD’s belong to the working age group 15-64
years old.
have mental, physical and intellectual changes and also been classified into
biomedical and social modes. The biomedical modes means disability that
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accredited to medical challenges while the social modes refers to disability that
present illness with cannot be changed” (Smith, 2009) and the person with
disability (PWD’s) need the most attention from the government this is the reason
why the institutional and legal government has been made favourable to this
Loneliness and social connectedness can affect anyone, but some people
are more vulnerable to it than other’s. Like disabled people but disabled people
often face barriers in daily life that can make them more likely to be chronically
Life attitude level is in fact determined by the ratio between what we have
and want in our life. When a PWD can cope well to his/her environment. Maybe
The problem may occur when the person with disability became lonely
and cannot properly interact to other people and to the world, maybe his/her
People with physical disabilities and their working life is the topic
discussed in the study. The main aim of the study was to make all the persons
with disability feel that we are equal for housing, education, jobs, and
transportation.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Connectedness Theory
strong biological and psychological mechanisms (Desi & Ryan, 2000; Patrick, Knee,
Canivello & Lons Bary, 2007).the safety needs and basic psychological needs is the
the important of belonging for human well-being, physical health, and metal health (for
an overview see Bauneister and Lea Ry, 1995).By Mediating communication through a
geographical distance and time and this allow as to fulfill our fundamental social needs of
changing life styles, like families dispersing over larger areas, elderly living alone, and to
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increase business travel however, doubts remain to whether mediate communication can
afford the affective characteristics a face to face interaction, which is often considered as
the gold standards of communication. Some research has been done in this area and have
residential mode (Shklovsk, Kraut and cumming, 2008). The concept of connectedness
has been characterized as a sense of keeping up to date, being involved, being in touch or
sharing with others within on going social relationships, or a sense of having company
Ijsselsteijn, De Ruyter & Farshchian, 2007). However, the exact nature of this key
outcome of mediated communication has hihert remained but the exact nature of
mediated communication has hihert remained relatively an explored, most research and
design of communication technology has largely based on an intuitive sense of what the
feeling of connectedness is. Social present has been more commonly discussed in
more lingerly feeling of belonging and to achieve the more fundamental insight in the
social connectedness, media psychology and HCI to established the concepts of social
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connectedness and its concept is to timely and necessary in order to theoretically anchor
communication.
Attitude Theory
Functional attitude theory (FAT) suggests that beliefs and attitudes are
cognitive dissonance. They can be beneficial and help people interact with the
supreme as the focus of psychological studies, Smith, Bruner, and White (1956)
human attitudes in relation to the functions to which they believed the attitudes
are served. Carpenter, Christopher (2012). This theory proposes that attitudes
are held by individuals because they are important and integral to psychological
Loneliness Theory
Hawkey and John T. Cacioppo (2010). Loneliness is a very painful thing. There are
so many people in the world that are feeling lonely or socially isolated and can start one
to feel unsafe. (Louise C. Hawkley & John T. Cacioppo, 2010). This in turns makes one,
often without being fully aware of his, hypervigilant for more social challenges in the
environment (Louise C. Hawkley & John T. Cacioppo, 2010). Being loneliness typically
communication and connection to other people. Lonely individuals see the social world
as a more threatening place, Negative social expectation tend to elicit behaviors from
others that confirm the lonely person’s expectations, thereby setting in motion a self-
fulfilling prophecy in which people actively distance themselves from would be social
partners even as they believe that the cause of the social distance is attributable to others
and is beyond their own control. People think being alone makes you lonely but the truth
is being surrounded by the world people can be the loneliest in the world. (Louise C.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Loneliness
Life Attitude
Social
Connectedness
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Life Attitude and Loneliness. This Loneliness and Social connectedness serves
city hall in Muntinlupa City. The researchers come up with supporting problems in
1.1 Age
1.2 Gender
The researcher study is anchored on the assumption that the respondents will
the researchers valid and reliable for correlation. In addition, the researcher study
of life attitude. This research study will only focus on the respondent of city hall
employees where identified with their personal characteristics which is their age,
employees status, and monthly income the respondents will be so only 50 female
factors are not included personal problem, relationship with their partners, and
intelligence quotient the variables were measured through their scale which is
life attitude among PWD City hall employees of Muntinlupa. The results of the
Researchers, this study hopes to be a place for applying theories and give them
the needed knowledge for their future job, especially in handling future problems
similar to the research topic. In doing this study, the researchers will have the
PWD employees, this study hopes to give them opportunity to identify the
factors, which leads to job satisfaction. It will provide the employees needed
affects their performance in work with this, the proper attitude or behaviour to
Family of PWD, this study hopes to help them understand and support a family
member who are experiencing stress and thus help him/her cope up in life.
of an employee which could be useful for other further studies, which was not yet
done by other studied that use job satisfaction and perceived stress as their
variables.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
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community. It’s about the relationships people have with each other and their
the study
communication with other beings, both with the present and extending in to the
future.
the study.
Life attitude is a reflection, our attitude in life determines life’s atittude to us. This
simply means we shape our lives that successful people have a good attitude
towards themselves, they expect to succeed more than they fail. Without a doubt,
the study
senses, or activities.
Person with disability Employee a person who works for another person or for
the study.
Age the length of time that the person has lived or a thing has existed.
It operationally defined the level of needs of our respondents based on their age.
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