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Who Self-Identifies as Disabled? An Examination of Impairment and Contextual Predictors

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Bogart, Kathleen R., Rottenstein, Adena, Lund, Emily M., and Bouchard, Lauren

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Purpose/Objective: According to Social Identity Theory, minority group members, like people with disabilities, manage stigma by either “passing” as majority group members or identifying with their minority group. Approximately 15% of the world’s population has a disability, but only a fraction of those individuals identify themselves as people with disabilities....

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, as well as lower psychological distress (Bat-Chava, 1994; Bogart, 2014, 2015; Nario-Redmond et al
The Role of Disability Self-Concept in Adaptation to Congenital or Acquired Disability

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Bogart, Kathleen R.

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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE: Current theories of adaptation to disability do not address differences in adaptation to congenital compared to acquired disability. Although people with congenital disabilities are generally assumed to be better adapted than people with acquired disabilities, few studies have tested this, and even fewer have attempted to explain the mechanisms...

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stigmatized groups, including Deaf people (Bat-Chava, 1993; 1994) . For at least a decade, scholars have