Diverse Pathways to Purpose for College Students With Disabilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara M. Newman ◽  
Ezekiel W. Kimball ◽  
Annemarie Vaccaro ◽  
Adam Moore ◽  
Peter F. Troiano
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Sense Of Purpose ◽  
High School To College ◽  
College Students With Disabilities

The sense of purpose, which directs and motivates goal attainment, is associated with health and happiness as students make transitions from high school to college and work. Despite its importance for student well-being, little empirical work has addressed the development of purpose among students with disabilities. This article expands on a model of the relationship between purpose development, career aspirations, and disability identity in a sample of 59 college students with a variety of visible and invisible disabilities. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach to the analysis of extensive interviews, results present five pathways to purpose and the processes through which students’ disabilities contribute to their sense of purpose. Implications for practice and future research emerge from this rich source of student voices.

Core Self-Evaluations as a Mediator Between Functional Disability and Life Satisfaction in College Students With Disabilities Majoring in Science and Technology

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Miller Smedema ◽  
Joseph S. Pfaller ◽  
Rana A. Yaghmaian ◽  
Hayley Weaver ◽  
Elizabeth da Silva Cardoso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Functional Disability ◽  
Future Research ◽  
College Students With Disabilities ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
Core Self ◽  
The Impact

Purpose: To examine the mediational effect of core self-evaluations (CSE) on the relationship between functional disability and life satisfaction.Methods: A quantitative descriptive design using multiple regression analysis. The participants were 97 college students with disabilities receiving services through Hunter College’s Minority-Disability Alliance (MIND Alliance) in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.Results: CSE was a partial mediator between functional disability and life satisfaction. After controlling for CSE, functional disability was no longer a significant predictor of life satisfaction.Conclusions: CSE partially mediated the impact of functional disability on life satisfaction. Future research should explore the development of interventions to increase CSE to reduce the effect of disability and to improve life satisfaction and employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities.

LGBTQ+ college students with disabilities: demographic profile and perceptions of well-being

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-77
Author(s):  
Ryan A. Miller ◽  
Sandra L. Dika ◽  
David J. Nguyen ◽  
Michael Woodford ◽  
Kristen A. Renn
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Demographic Profile ◽  
College Students With Disabilities

Assessing College Life Adjustment of Students With Disabilities: Application of the PERMA Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy N. Tansey ◽  
Susan Smedema ◽  
Emre Umucu ◽  
Kanako Iwanaga ◽  
Jia-Rung Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Functional Disability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
College Life ◽  
College Students With Disabilities

The clearest career path to the middle class generally involves access, and completion, of postsecondary education. However, persons with disabilities are less likely to enroll or graduate from college compared with their same-age peers without disabilities. The quality of life of students with disabilities, and their well-being, may be a root cause of low graduation rates. To flourish in life is to both feel good and function effectively. Seligman developed the Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA) model that may be useful in understanding the well-being of individuals. The purpose of this study is to examine the factorial structure of the PERMA model in sample college students with disabilities and then examine the model’s relationship with outcomes important to college adjustment such as academic achievement, relationship problems, stress, life satisfaction, and core self-evaluation. Ninety-seven college students with disabilities enrolled in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) were recruited for the study. Findings support a one-factor solution for the PERMA measurement model. Furthermore, PERMA was negatively correlated with factors associated with college difficulty and positively associated with factors linked to college success. The PERMA model also demonstrated that well-being mediates the relationship between functional disability and life satisfaction. Implications for rehabilitation researchers and practitioners are reviewed.

College students with disabilities redefine activism: Self-advocacy, storytelling, and collective action.

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezekiel W. Kimball ◽  
Adam Moore ◽  
Annemarie Vaccaro ◽  
Peter F. Troiano ◽  
Barbara M. Newman
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
College Students With Disabilities

Presenting Problems and Psychotherapy Outcome of College Students With Disabilities

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Shwalb ◽  
Tyler R. Pedersen ◽  
Julie E. Preece ◽  
Edward A. Martinelli ◽  
Phil A. Rash ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome ◽  
Presenting Problems ◽  
College Students With Disabilities
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