Cultivating Our Roots and Extending Our Branches

McCarthy, Henry

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“…Rehabilitation psychologists have studied positive psychology concepts and variables for decades (McCarthy, 2014). Indeed, rehabilitation psychologists contributed chapters to the first edition of the Handbook of positive psychology (Snyder & Lopez, 2002), and similar contributions appear in its subsequent editions.…”

Section: Potential Mediators Of the Resilience–adjustment Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience and well-being among persons with spinal cord injury/disorders.

Wade¹,

Elliott²,

Schlegel³

et al. 2023

Rehabilitation Psychology

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Purpose: We examined positive behavioral resources and characteristics that might distinguish resilient personality prototypes among persons with chronic spinal cord injury/disorder (SCID). Positive psychology variables with clear linkages to existing psychological interventions were examined as potential mediators of the resilience–well-being relationship. Research Method and Design: A cross-sectional, self-report study was conducted. Two hundred and ninety-eight consenting members of the Paralyzed Veterans of America (268 male; 236 self-identified as white) provided useable survey data for analysis (including 161 veterans with tetraplegia, 107 with paraplegia, 30 with cauda equina). Cluster analysis of Big Five personality traits identified resilient and nonresilient personality profiles. Tests of mean differences between resilient and nonresilient participants on behavioral resources and characteristics were performed. Path models predicting well-being and health-related quality of life (HRQL) were conducted. Results: One hundred and sixty-three respondents had resilient personality profiles and 135 had nonresilient profiles. Resilient individuals reported significantly more optimal scores on every positive psychology variable, and greater well-being and HRQL than nonresilient respondents. Path models found the relationship of resilience to well-being was explained through its beneficial associations with psychological flexibility, use of personal strengths, meaning in life (MIL), and gratitude. Psychological flexibility also mediated the resilience–HRQL relationship. Cauda equina was significantly associated with higher pain interference and lower HRQL. Conclusions: Higher gratitude, MIL, use of personal strengths, and psychological flexibility appear to characterize resilience and well-being among persons with chronic SCID. Further studies are needed to understand the impact of pain interference on HRQL among individuals with cauda equina.

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Section: Potential Mediators Of the Resilience–adjustment Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience and well-being among persons with spinal cord injury/disorders.

Wade¹,

Elliott²,

Schlegel³

et al. 2023

Rehabilitation Psychology

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Engagement in social networks: a multi-method study in non-profits organizations

Klafke

Gomes

Mendonça

et al. 2021

Int Rev Public Nonprofit Mark

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The social identity approach to disability: Bridging disability studies and psychological science.

Dirth¹,

Branscombe

2018

Psychological Bulletin

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Although mainstream psychology has received numerous critiques for its traditional approaches to disability-related research, proposals for alternative theory that can encompass the social, cultural, political, and historical features of disability are lacking. The social identity approach (SIA) offers a rich framework from which to ask research questions about the experience of disability in accordance with the critical insights found in disability studies (DS), the source for many of the most compelling critiques of disability psychology research. We review existing research considering the complementary social identity (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) and self-categorization (Turner, Hogg, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987) theories to support our contention that the disability social category is a significant driving force in the psychological experience of disability and to demonstrate the theoretical utility of the SIA. We suggest that a bridge between the critical epistemological perspectives found in disability studies and the methodological rigor and theoretical breadth and parsimony of a social identity approach is essential for examining the social psychological experience of disability in the 21st century. To conclude we explore the emergent possibilities for research in psychological science that can follow from a social identity approach to disability. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

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Cultivating Our Roots and Extending Our Branches

Abstract: You can't create a future, if you're not connected to your past. Cornel West, PhDGeneration, refinement, and utilization of theoretical and evidence-based knowledge are processes essential to the continuity and credibility of rehabilitation as a profession.

Cited by 9 publications

References 79 publications

Resilience and well-being among persons with spinal cord injury/disorders.

Resilience and well-being among persons with spinal cord injury/disorders.

Engagement in social networks: a multi-method study in non-profits organizations

The social identity approach to disability: Bridging disability studies and psychological science.

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