This paper aims to discuss the implications for the developments of the consumer-centered services and the service quality index in the welfare center for people with disabilities by analysing the effect of the service quality on consumer satisfactions. In doing so, this paper seeks to answer the questions as following that. Firstly, what are the components of the service quality in the welfare center for people with disabilities? Secondly, is it the proper methods for measuring consumer satisfactions to using the index and weight of the service quality factors? Thirdly, what is the service quality factors to effect on consumer satisfactions? In order to study it, this paper uses the exploratory factor analysis and regression analysis. The main arguments of this paper are summarized as following that. Firstly, it can be explained that the structure of the service quality in the welfare center for people with disabilities is comprised of the variety of factors such as reliability, responsiveness, assurance tangible and so on. In particular, empathy is not a independent factor but a sub-factor of assurance. Secondly, the tested variables of the component validity merely explain a 21.3% of the consumer satisfactions. It shows that the main factors of consumer satisfactions is not only a variable of the service quality but a constellation of potential variables. Thus, this paper argues that measuring the consumer satisfactions through the index and weight of the service quality is not proper. Thirdly, the mainly factors of the service quality that effect on the consumer satisfactions in the welfare center for people with disabilities are reliability and tangible, in relatively, the effects of assurance and responsiveness are inferior to those of reliability and tangible. Hence, in order to improve the consumer satisfactions in the welfare center for people with disabilities, it ought to put emphasis on the development and management of the programs before everything else, and not to underestimate the importance of material settings. This paper can be a beginning to developing the managing systems of consumer-controlled services in social welfare organizations.
Key Words: Consumer Satisfactions, Service Quality, Community Welfare Centers for People with Disabilities.