Accommodation requests among older workers: The role of disability acceptance and other psychosocial factors.

The sample was predominantly White, highly educated, and employed in technical jobs, limiting generalizability to other demographic groups. The cross-sectional design prevents establishing causality; workplace support may result from having accommodations rather than causing the request. Data relied entirely on self-report, which is susceptible to response bias. The recruitment method (online announcements via disability organizations) likely introduced selection bias, resulting in a higher-than-average rate of accommodation requests.

The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, or publication of this article.

Do not conclude that improving disability acceptance will directly lead to more accommodations. The study found that disability acceptance did not significantly predict whether workers requested or received accommodations in the regression models, whereas perceived workplace support did.