Development and validation of the Physical Disability Identity Scale: A multistudy quantitative investigation with participant feedback.

IF 1.9 4区医学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Rehabilitation Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI:10.1037/rep0000606

Payton D Rule, Kaylin Ratner, Emily C Willroth, Patrick L Hill

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Purpose/objective: Disability has traditionally been viewed as a deficit in psychology research; however, accruing work suggests that viewing disability as an identity may be protective for mental health and well-being among disabled individuals. Therefore, developing disability identity measures that comprehensively capture this view of disability as an identity is an important step for promoting disabled individuals' flourishing.

Research method/design: To address this, we conducted two studies aimed at developing and validating a new scale to measure physical disability identity among adults with physical disability. In Study 1 (N = 104), we solicited feedback on our new scale from adults with physical disabilities and revised our scale to ensure that it captured their lived experiences. In Study 2 (N = 296), we tested the factor structure of the new Physical Disability Identity Scale. All data were collected in 2023.

Results: Most participants reported that our scale was easy to comprehend and comprehensively captured their lived experiences. We found evidence for a six-factor structure of the new Physical Disability Identity Scale, which assessed the following dimensions: Connection, Satisfaction, Centrality, Openness, Individual Self-Stereotyping, and Disability Lens. In addition, results suggested that Connection, Satisfaction, and Openness were adaptively related to well-being and health, whereas Centrality, Individual Self-Stereotyping, and Disability Lens were mostly adversely related to well-being and health.

Conclusion/implications: This research suggests that our Physical Disability Identity Scale is valid among adults with physical disabilities and that physical disability identity dimensions may be valuable to consider in future work on well-being and health among individuals with physical disabilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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肢体残疾认同量表的开发与验证：一项有参与者反馈的多研究定量调查。

目的/目标：残疾传统上被视为心理学研究的缺陷；然而，越来越多的工作表明，将残疾视为一种身份可能对残疾人的心理健康和福祉有保护作用。因此，制定全面捕捉残疾作为一种身份的观点的残疾认同措施是促进残疾人发展的重要一步。研究方法/设计：为了解决这一问题，我们进行了两项研究，旨在开发和验证一种新的测量身体残疾成年人身体残疾身份的量表。在研究1 （N = 104）中，我们征求了身体残疾成年人对我们的新量表的反馈，并对我们的量表进行了修订，以确保它能捕捉到他们的生活经历。在研究2 （N = 296）中，我们检验了新版肢体残疾认同量表的因素结构。所有数据于2023年收集。结果：大多数参与者报告我们的量表易于理解，并全面地捕捉了他们的生活经历。我们发现了新的身体残疾认同量表的六因素结构的证据，该量表评估以下维度：联系、满意度、中心性、开放性、个人自我刻板印象和残疾镜头。此外，结果表明，连接、满意度和开放性与幸福感和健康存在自适应相关，而中心性、个体自我刻板印象和残疾镜头与幸福感和健康存在负相关。结论/启示：本研究表明，我们的身体残疾认同量表在成人身体残疾中是有效的，并且身体残疾认同维度可能在未来的身体残疾个体的福祉和健康研究中有价值。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Rehabilitation Psychology Multiple-

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4.80

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7.40%

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期刊介绍： Rehabilitation Psychology is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles in furtherance of the mission of Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychology) of the American Psychological Association and to advance the science and practice of rehabilitation psychology. Rehabilitation psychologists consider the entire network of biological, psychological, social, environmental, and political factors that affect the functioning of persons with disabilities or chronic illness. Given the breadth of rehabilitation psychology, the journal"s scope is broadly defined.