Acceptance of Disability: Determinants of Overcoming Social Frustration

Abstract

The article is devoted to the subjective reaction of patients at different stages of disabling disease, in the context of the formation of a specific cognitive-emotional and motivational model of “internal picture of disability”, depending on the severity of social frustration as the most important deconditioning factor. We wanted to identify psychological determinant of the specificity of adaptive activity of the patient to the situation disabling disease, depending on the level of increase social frustration. Nature of adaptation to the disabling disease depending on the level of increase social frustration expressed by: 1) decrease in self-esteem of patient self-efficacy with an increase in subjective experience of disability; 2) the growing tension of personal protective mechanisms; 3) reductions coping competence, which, depending on the rise of frustration, becomes effective instead of the rational-intelligent, more maladaptive emotional.

Evaluating the Health-Related Quality of Life of the Rare Disease Population in Hong Kong Using EQ-5D 3-Level

“…4,47 In the face of clinical uncertainties, negative psychological responses manifest from patients' frustration and loss of confidence in the medical system. 48 Nevertheless, the social challenges cannot be ignored. Patients with RD have been reported to be highly conscious of the public's perception of their disorder, fueling negative psychosocial responses.…”

“…37,54 These illustrate the undeniable impact of acceptance, optimism, and improved self-esteem as effective coping strategies to improve HRQOL. 48 Table 2. Distribution of patients with RD and caregivers in each level of the EQ-5D-3L health dimensions.…”

“…16,49 This includes providing effective diagnostic tests and trained professionals to identify RDs, providing medical services that alleviate the symptoms of RD conditions, and establishing patient support groups. 48,50 Raising public awareness would also be beneficial for society to recognize and accept the needs of the RD population. Finally, this study highlights the substantial impact on caregivers.…”

The relationship among psychosocial adaptation, medication adherence and quality of life in breast cancer women with adjuvant endocrine therapy

“…In this study, all dimensions of psychological and social functions of breast cancer women treated with endocrine therapy and their overall status were at a moderately good level. The reasons may be related to the good family support and social relations, the improvement of education level and the change of self-value perception of breast cancer women [ 27 , 28 ]. from scale entry mean score compared with the overall mean alone, the items "breast problems make me feel ugly" and "other people sometimes make unpleasant comments about my disease" had average scores lower than the mean of the total items (2.56), indicating that patients have a lower sense of self-identity and are more influenced by the attitudes of others toward them; the items "Breast problems affect my sex life as a couple," "I try to keep trying even when I'm failing," and "I try to see things in a positive light," averaged higher than the overall mean, indicating that breast cancer women were better at having sex and coping with difficulties in a positive manner.…”

Impact of organizational culture on the occupational health of specialists in socionomic professions

“…Contemporary studies contain extensive empirical material devoted to the occupational health of specialists in socionomic professions. At the same time, there is ambiguity in the interpretation of the very concept of "occupational health," which is considered mainly from medical (VERBINA, 2010;DRUZHILOV, 2013;MITINA, 1998;RAZUMOV;PONOMARENKO;PISKUNOV, 1996;RYUTINA;RYUTINA, 2017;GOLENKOV et al, 2021;MOROZOVA et al, 2020) and psychological (NIKIFOROV; AVGUSTOVA, 2010;SHINGAEV, 2015;MOROZOVA et al, 2015) points of view. In medical science, occupational health is generally understood as the ability of the body to maintain maximum performance under any occupational stress (DRUZHILOV, 2013;SHINGAEV, 2020;LOGACHEV;MAKHOV, 2015aMAKHOV, , 2015b.…”