Table 3. Youth with disabilities' reported feelings about negative aspects of self and life, by disability category
How often youth felt this in the past week | Learning disability | Speech/ language impairment | Mental retardation | Emotional disturbance | Hearing impairment | Visual impairment | Orthopedic impairment | Other health impairment | Autism | Traumatic brain injury | Multiple disabilities | Deaf-blindness |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Percent / standard error | ||||||||||||
Percentage who feel: | ||||||||||||
Depressed | ||||||||||||
Most or all of the time | 2.8 | 5.9 | 11.0 | 5.6 | 4.3 | 3.0 | 7.2 | 4.8 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 12.3 | 2.0 |
(1.40) | (2.10) | (3.65) | (2.12) | (2.49) | (2.17) | (2.97) | (2.00) | (3.40) | (4.35) | (4.91) | (2.53) | |
A lot of the time | 3.1 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 5.6 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 10.2 | 4.4 | 7.0 | 5.4 | 2.1 | 4.1 |
(1.47) | (1.74) | (2.49) | (2.12) | (2.49) | (2.52) | (3.48) | (1.92) | (3.77) | (4.08) | (2.14) | (3.58) | |
Sometimes | 36.3 | 29.3 | 32.3 | 29.4 | 31.1 | 22.8 | 18.1 | 33.6 | 36.4 | 32.4 | 42.0 | 37.4 |
(4.09) | (4.05) | (5.45) | (4.21) | (5.68) | (5.34) | (4.43) | (4.43) | (7.11) | (8.44) | (7.38) | (8.73) | |
Rarely or never | 57.8 | 60.8 | 52.0 | 59.3 | 60.4 | 70.1 | 64.6 | 57.2 | 51.0 | 56.0 | 43.6 | 56.5 |
(4.20) | (4.34) | (5.82) | (4.54) | (6.01) | (5.83) | (5.50) | (4.64) | (7.39) | (8.96) | (7.42) | (8.95) | |
Lonely | ||||||||||||
Most or all of the time | 5.7 | 7.6 | 5.2 | 8.4 | 8.9 | 8.4 | 9.9 | 10.9 | 3.3 | 10.7 | 8.5 | 6.4 |
(2.93) | (2.26) | (4.01) | (2.47) | (2.67) | (2.57) | (3.42) | (4.71) | (2.20) | (3.58) | (4.11) | (4.42) | |
A lot of the time | 4.0 | 3.2 | 10.4 | 3.4 | 5.9 | 4.5 | 6.3 | 5.1 | 7.8 | 6.1 | 9.0 | 12.5 |
(2.48) | (1.50) | (5.51) | (1.61) | (2.21) | (1.92) | (2.78) | (3.33) | (3.30) | (2.77) | (4.22) | (5.97) | |
Sometimes | 24.3 | 24.1 | 19.4 | 24.6 | 21.9 | 24.2 | 25.2 | 28.3 | 35.2 | 35.1 | 34.7 | 35.5 |
(5.42) | (3.64) | (7.14) | (3.83) | (3.87) | (3.96) | (4.98) | (6.81) | (5.87) | (5.53) | (7.02) | (8.64) | |
Rarely or never | 66.0 | 65.2 | 64.9 | 63.5 | 63.3 | 62.8 | 58.6 | 55.7 | 53.7 | 48.1 | 47.8 | 45.6 |
(5.99) | (4.05) | (8.61) | (4.28) | (4.51) | (4.47) | (5.64) | (7.51) | (6.13) | (5.79) | (7.37) | (8.99) | |
Disliked | ||||||||||||
Most or all of the time | 1.6 | 6.2 | 13.6 | 4.5 | 6.3 | 9.0 | 5.8 | 8.2 | 6.6 | 10.2 | 6.3 | 8.4 |
(1.59) | (2.06) | (6.19) | (1.86) | (2.28) | (2.67) | (2.68) | (4.15) | (3.07) | (2.28) | (3.62) | (5.01) | |
A lot of the time | 2.7 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 5.5 | 3.5 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 8.4 | 4.1 |
(2.05) | (1.59) | (3.36) | (1.74) | (2.09) | (1.95) | (2.62) | (2.78) | (1.85) | (2.16) | (4.14) | (3.58) | |
Sometimes | 20.4 | 28.0 | 15.9 | 29.2 | 25.8 | 21.3 | 21.7 | 39.0 | 32.0 | 38.3 | 37.1 | 31.2 |
(5.10) | (3.83) | (6.60) | (4.08) | (4.11) | (3.82) | (4.73) | (7.38) | (5.77) | (5.64) | (7.20) | (8.36) | |
Rarely or never | 75.3 | 62.3 | 66.9 | 62.3 | 62.7 | 65.1 | 67.0 | 49.3 | 59.1 | 47.9 | 48.1 | 56.3 |
(5.45) | (4.14) | (8.49) | (4.35) | (4.54) | (4.45) | (5.40) | (7.57) | (6.08) | (5.79) | (7.45) | (8.95) | |
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Special Education Research, National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), Wave 2 youth telephone interview/mail survey, 2003. |