PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE Individuals with visual impairments, including transition-age youth, have much lower employment rates than their peers without disabilities. We conducted a systematic review to examine the factors that predict employment in American youth with visual impairments. Research/Method: We used a three-pronged approach to identify articles via databases search, hand search, and ancestral search. We then coded all articles for study and sample characteristics, study outcomes, and study quality. RESULTS Ten studies met inclusion criteria, nine of which reported secondary analysis of existing datasets. Previous work experience and postsecondary education were consistently significant positive predictors of employment across studies, with previous, self-initiated work experience being the strongest predictor. There is also some evidence for the importance of transportation and travel skills in obtaining employment. Conversely, demographic and disability characteristics generally were not significant predictors of employment. CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS These results highlight the need to teach vocational skills, particularly job search skills, to youth with visual impairments and to support their completion of postsecondary education. Because most studies involved secondary analysis of older datasets, and five relied on the same dataset, additional research should be conducted using novel and current datasets in order to replicate and expand on these findings. Research is also needed to identify factors associated with completion of postsecondary education for youth with visual impairments as well as interventions that lead to positive postsecondary educational and employment outcomes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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对视力障碍过渡年龄青年就业相关因素的系统评价。

目的/目标 有视力障碍的个人，包括过渡年龄的青年，其就业率比没有残疾的同龄人低得多。我们进行了一项系统审查，以检查预测美国视力障碍青年就业的因素。研究/方法：我们使用三管齐下的方法通过数据库搜索、手工搜索和祖先搜索来识别文章。然后，我们针对研究和样本特征、研究结果和研究质量对所有文章进行编码。结果 10 项研究符合纳入标准，其中 9 项报告了对现有数据集的二次分析。以前的工作经验和高等教育一直是各研究就业的显着积极预测因素，以前的、自我发起的工作经验是最强的预测因素。还有一些证据表明交通和旅行技能对就业的重要性。相反，人口统计学和残疾特征通常不是就业的重要预测因素。结论/意义 这些结果强调需要向有视力障碍的青年传授职业技能，尤其是求职技能，并支持他们完成高等教育。由于大多数研究涉及对旧数据集的二次分析，并且有五个研究依赖于相同的数据集，因此应使用新的和当前的数据集进行额外的研究，以复制和扩展这些发现。还需要开展研究，以确定与视力障碍青年完成高等教育相关的因素以及导致积极的高等教育和就业成果的干预措施。（PsycINFO 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。