A Study on the Multidimensional Poverty Types of Young People with Disabilities: Verification of Predictor Variables and Relationship with Depression

The purpose of this study is to classify the multidimensional poverty types of young people with disabilities using the data from the 4th (2021) of the Disability and Life Dynamics Panel, analyze the influence of predictive variables, and verify the effect of multidimensional poverty types on depression. As a result of the analysis, first, as a result of analyzing the multidimensional poverty types of young people with disabilities, they were classified into two types: low-poverty group and high-poverty group. The low-poverty group, which included 55.7% of the study subjects, experienced high poverty in three out of ten multidimensional poverty indices, while the high-poverty group, which included 44.3% of the study subjects, experienced high poverty in seven indices. Second, among the predictive variables of multidimensional poverty types of young people with disabilities, being ‘married’, having ‘multiple disabilities’, and ‘living in a large city’ showed a higher probability of belonging to the high-poverty group. Third, among the multidimensional poverty types of young people with disabilities, it was analyzed that depression was higher in the high poverty group compared to the low poverty group.