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H Livneh

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PubMed1991

A hierarchy of reactions to disability.

The responses of 118 individuals with non-congenital physical disabilities to the 60-item Reactions to Impairment and Disability Inventory (RIDI) were submitted to an ordering-theoretic data analysis procedure. The RIDI provides information on eight patterns of psychosocial reactions to disability, namely: shock, anxiety, denial, depression, internalized anger, externalized hostility, acknowledgement and adjustment. The resultant nonlinear multidimensional hierarchy of contingent relationships among the eight scales was interpreted with reference to the clinical literature and to previous investigations designed to validate the existence of patterns of reactions to disability (e.g. Livneh and Antonak, 1990). It is recommended that subsequent research should compare hierarchies derived from data obtained from other, more homogeneous samples to clarify the multidimensional, nonlinear structure of the process of adaptation to disability.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1987

Person-environment congruence: a rehabilitation perspective.

The present paper outlines a model of person-environment congruence within a rehabilitation context. The model suggests the following: a) The person component may be conceptualized as being composed of two separate dimensions, namely, the functional or activity level involved, e.g., Sub-Body, Self, and Exterio Self-Systems and an operational context within which these functions are performed, e.g., Biophysical, Mental and Affective Contexts. b) The environment component is comprised of a single dimension, that of environmental settings, e.g., treatment, home, work, and community settings. Environmental settings are further noted for their physical, personal, and social properties. The resulting three-dimensional model was, then, utilized in a discussion aimed at clarifying the concepts of disease, impairment, disability and handicap. The paper concludes with a brief suggestion of the nature of the relationship between the concept of functional assessment and the present model.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed1986

A factor analytic study of manifest anxiety: a transsituational, transtemporal investigation.

In this study, we investigated the factorial structure of the Manifest Anxiety Scale (MAS) among American, counseling graduate students (N = 227). The MAS was administered across transsituational and transtemporal conditions. The following four factors were yielded following orthogonal rotation: General Worries, Physiological Correlates of Anxiety, Distractibility, and Embarrassment. These four factors, however, explained less than one quarter of the common variance extracted. Following a comparison with previous factor analytic studies of the MAS, we discuss factors possibly contributing to the discrepant findings, with particular attention to the MAS's item content and psychometric properties and the nature of the population used.

Adult↗
PubMed1986

Manifest anxiety: a cluster analytic study.

Subjects in graduate classes voluntarily completed the Manifest Anxiety Scale. A cluster analysis assessed the internal structure of the scale. Three clusters presented as the most parsimonious and meaningful solution given the data: Cluster I, a generalized anxiety cluster including 60% of the items; Cluster II, physiological concomitants of anxiety; and Cluster III, a worry-tension component. The solution is discussed in relation to prior work on both the scale and anxiety, in general.

Adult↗
PubMed1985

The Disability Factor Scale--General: second-order factor structure.

This study examined the second-order factor structure of Siller's (1969) Disability Factor Scale--General. Factor analysis of the seven attitudinal factors toward disabled individuals, based on the responses of 200 college students, yielded two major second-order factors. These two second-order factors of Net Affect and Authoritarian Virtuousness are further discussed in light of their intrafactor and interfactor relationships.

Adolescent↗