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This paper studies the post-graduation stressors
experienced during the job-seeking and employment stages, as
well as the coping measures employed by visually disabled
students who were accepted to college through the "Rules of
Recommendation and Selection Porgram for Visual and
Hearing Disabled Examinee". This paper conducted in-depth
interviews among 22 persons with visual impairments and came up
with the following findings: 1.Most of the respondents
gained their present employment either through self-initiated
job application or tests; however none of the respondents
obtained their present jobs through the introduction of the
"government employment service office" or "public and
private career training institutions". 2.The stressors
respondents experienced during the job-seeking stage are
greatly related to the job-seeking method employed; stressors
vary as method differs. The principal coping measure employed
by respondents when confronted by stressors during the job-
seeking stage is the problem-focused coping measure, that is,
respondents directly confront problems to cope. 3.The
stressors respondents experienced in their present jobs are as
follows: nature of work , interpersonal relationship,
environmental demands, career development and personal
psychological make-up. Except for the staff members of
national assembly representatives and government officials
who mainly employ the problem-focused coping measure to
cope with occupational stressors, the measure used by other
respondents to cope with the occupational stressors of their
present jobs is a combination of the problem-focused coping
measure and the emotion-focused coping measure.
Furthermore, respondents who face occupational stressors
mostly "seek the assistance of others" or "resort to the Braille
PC" to cope with these stressors. It is hereby made apparent
that the support of the society forms an important occupation
stressor coping resource for the visually disabled. Learning to
use the Braille PC is a requirement for persons with visual
impairments. Based on the research findings obtained,
this paper proposes that the college graduates with visual
impairments, social and labor government officials, as well as
the general public shall be able to help the persons with
visual impairments manage stress effictively. This paper shall
also serve as reference for the government''s future efforts to
improve the conditions for the persons with visual impairments.
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