Analysis of Research Trends in the Field of Women with Disabilities Using Topic Modeling Analysis : Focusing on domestic registered journals from 2002 to 2024

The purpose of this study is to explore the issues and trends in overall scholarly interest in the field of women with disabilities and to suggest directions and challenges for the development of the field. The abstracts and keywords of 267 papers published in KCI listed and candidate journals between 2002 and 2024 were analyzed using Python. The results showed that first, the number of studies on women with disabilities has increased since the 2010s; second, the frequency(TF) analysis showed that 'employment', 'satisfaction', 'employment', 'discrimination', and 'occupation' were the most frequent topics in order; the frequency-inverse frequency(TF-IDF) analysis was similar to the frequency results, but 'discrimination' was followed by 'child rearing' and 'occupation' was ranked relatively higher than 'employment'. Third, the topic model analysis resulted in seven topics, including‘job retention and abilities(24.2%)’,‘sexuality, marriage, and motherhood (17.5%)’,‘daily life satisfaction(15.5%)’,‘economic life-related(14.6%)’,‘appearance perception and happiness(12.9%)’,‘depression and social support(7.8%)’and‘identity and social roles(7.5%)’.The occupancy rate of the constituent keywords in each topic was different, indicating interrelationships between the seven topics. Based on these results, we suggested the need for future research on aging of women with disabilities, including a life-cycle approach, diverse participation and activities, health status, intersectionality research, independence and community living.