Descripción del proyecto
IN SPAIN THERE ARE ABOUT 4 MILLION PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF DISABILITY ¿OBSERVATORIO ESTATAL DE LA DISCAPACIDAD¿, EDAD, 2008), LIVING IN A CONTEXT WHERE ADEQUATE RESOURCES ARE NOT ASSURED AND WHERE PREJUDICES EXIST (CEMIR, 2008), THUS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AUTONOMY AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IS A PRIORITY FOR THE GOVERNMENT (DEPENDANT¿S LAW ¿LEY DE DEPENDENCIA¿), AND AN IMPORTANT EFFORT IS NEEDED, IN A PREVIOUS RESEARCH PROJECT, WITH A GRANT BY THE SPANISH AGENCY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, WE CONFIRMED THE EXISTENCE OF CONTRAINTS TO DEVELOPING THE AUTONOMY OF THIS TYPE OF PEOPLE (MARTINEZ-TUR, MOLINER, & PEIRO, 2008), IT WAS OBSERVED THAT FAMILIES DID NOT HAVE THE ATTITUDES TOWARD AUTONOMY THAT THE PROFESSIONALS REQUIRED IN THE CENTERS FOR THE ATTENTION TO PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, THEREFORE, IT IS IMPORTANT TO ACHIEVE A REDUCTION IN THESE DISCREPANCIES OR ¿GAPS¿ AND AN INCREASE IN THEMUTUAL TRUST BETWEEN PROFESSIONALS AND FAMILIES,,THIS PROJECT EXAMINES THE ROLE OF ANTECEDENTS OF MUTUAL TRUST BETWEEN PROFESSIONALS AND FAMILIES, AS WELL AS THE RELATIONSHIP EXANT BETWEEN TRUST AND THE AUTONOMY AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES,TO THIS END, FEAPS (SPANISH CONFEDERATION OF ASSOCIATIONS DEVOTED TO PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES) WILL PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE AS THE MAIN EPO OF THE PROJECT, ANTECEDENTS OF FAMILY TRUST IN PROFESSIONALS ARE RELATED TO DIFFERENT INDICATORS OF PERFORMANCE (SERVICE CLIMATE, SERVICE QUALITY), JUSTICE CRITERIA USED IN PROFESSIONALS¿ PERFORMANCE AND DECISION-MAKING, STYLES IN SOLVING CONFLICTS, COMPLAINT HANDLING, CONTEXT ORIENTATION OF PROFESSIONALS, AND ENTREPERNEURSHIP, IN CONTRAST, IT IS EXPECTED THAT PROFESSIONAL TRUST IN FAMILIES WILL BE CONNECTED TO KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCIES OF FAMILIES RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMY IN THEIR RELATIVES WITH DISABILITIES, AS WELL AS TO THE FAIRNESS WITH WHICH FAMILY REPRESENTATIVES ACT ON THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THESE CENTERS, IT IS HYPOTHESIZED THAT THE AFOREMENTIONED VARIABLES WILL IMPACT MUTUAL TRUST (DEGREE TO WHICH FAMILIES AND PROFESSIONALS TRUST EACH OTHER), IN TURN, THIS MUTUAL TRUST WILL POSITIVELY IMPACT OTHER OUTCOME VARIABLES: INFORMATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN PROFESSIONALS AND FAMILIES; AUTONOMY OF PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES; SHARED ATTITUDES TOWARD AUTONOMY BY FAMILIES, PROFESSIONALS, AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES; GENERAL QUALITY OF LIFE OF PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES; FAMILY SATISFACTION WITH THE CENTERS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES; AND WELL-BEING OF PROFESSIONALS AND PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, TO CONDUCT THIS RESEARCH PROJECT, 100 CENTERS PERTAINING TO FEPAS WILL PARTICIPATE, IN ADDITION, 4 EXPERIMENTS WILL BE CONDUCTED, THE COMBINATION OF SURVEY AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES WILL PERMIT A RIGOROUS INVESTIGATION PROCESS, THE PROJECT WILL BE DEVELOPED BY AN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH TEAM WITH AN IMPORTANT TRAJECTORY OF PREVIOUS COOPERATION, INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS, THIS TEAM IS COMPOSED OF TWO INITIAL SUB-GROUPS COMING FROM PSYCHOLOGY AND ECONOMY, THUS ACHIEVING POSITIVE SYNERGY AND A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CONTRIBUTION, AT THE MOMENT, MOST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE PROJECT ARE INVESTIGATING UNDER THE SAME STRUCTURE, IDOCAL (RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY, ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE), THIS SHARED STRUCTURE WILL FACILITATE THE INTEGRATION OF DISCIPLINES AND POSITIVE SYNERGIES,