Peer and Non-Peer Academic Scientists and Peer Support Specialist Community of Practice: Stakeholder Engagement to Advance the Science of Peer Support

Fortuna, Karen L.; Mbao, Mbita; Kadakia, Arya; Myers, Amanda; Fischer, Daniel; MacDonald, Sandi; Brunchet, Sheila; Hintz, Iga; Rossom, Rebecca C.; Brooks, Jessica; Joseph, Kalisa; Haragirimana, Claver; Storm, Marianne; Mois, George; Umucu, Emre; Almeida, Margaret; Rivera, Jennifer; Zisman‐Ilani, Yaara; Venegas, Maria; Walker, R. M.

doi:10.1109/ghtc53159.2021.9612411

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“…Clinicians and professionals who work with student veterans might also apply positive psychology interventions into therapy, to advance student veterans' positive thought patterns and happiness levels (Umucu, Rumrill, et al, 2022;Wood et al, 2008). In addition, rehabilitation counselors may find peer support specialists (Fortuna et al, 2019(Fortuna et al, , 2021 who have knowledge and expertise on working with Veterans with disabilities given Veterans prefer working with their fellow Veterans. Finally, although these data were not collected during the pandemic, we strongly believe that this study provides us promise that improving positive emotions and sense of accomplishment may help student Veterans to buffer negative impact of COVID-19 on persons with disabilities and college students as reported by research (Ibarra-Mejia et al, 2022;Lee et al, 2021;McGuire et al, 2022;Umucu, 2021b;Umucu & Lee, 2020;Umucu, Lee & Bezyak, 2022;Umucu, Reyes, Urkmez, et al, 2022).…”

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Service-Connected Disability and Happiness in Student Veterans: A Parallel Mediation Study of PERMA

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Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin

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The student veteran population has been growing in higher education, along with the attention to their happiness and well-being. Seligman developed the positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment (PERMA) model to help understand an individual’s happiness, including five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationship, Meaning, and Accomplishment. In this study, we aim at evaluating the role of the PERMA model’s five pillars in explaining the relationship between service-connected disability and happiness. Data were collected from 205 student veterans. The result demonstrated that positive emotion and accomplishment mediated the relationship between service-connected disability and happiness. The findings of this study suggest utilizing positive psychology to help student veterans improve happiness, as well as engage in more activities that could potentially increase an individual’s positive emotion and accomplishment, and eventually increase the level of happiness.

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