The Importance of Disability Identity, Self-Advocacy, and Disability Activism

2021 ◽  
pp. 273247452110571
Author(s):  
Ivanova Smith ◽  
Carlyn O. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Political Action ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Community Activism ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Disability Identity ◽  
Policy Alternatives ◽  
Self Worth

Disability identity development is an important part of the experience of people with disabilities. Participation in disability community activism and advocacy for the goals of the disability community is related to self-advocacy and plays a fundamental role in shifting individuals’ views of themselves and their disabilities. This article explores a political disability identity conceptual framework and provides recommendations for teachers to develop an understanding of disability in school focused on self-worth and pride; awareness of discrimination, common cause within the disability community, and policy alternatives; and engagement in political action.

Disability Self-Worth and Positive Personal Meaning in Disability: Correlates of Hope Among U.S. Residents With Physical Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 003435522110095
Author(s):  
Mercedes A. Zapata
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Measurement Development ◽  
Structural Validity ◽  
Disability Identity ◽  
Sensory Disabilities ◽  
Self Worth

Research is beginning to indicate that positive disability identity is associated with positive psychosocial outcomes among people with disabilities. Personal disability identity (PDI) refers to self-concept as a person with a disability. Two studies were conducted to examine (a) the psychometric properties of new PDI subscales and (b) the association between the new subscales and hope, a cognitive motivational construct. In Study 1, the author examined the structural validity and internal consistency of recently developed measures of PDI (i.e., disability self-worth and personal meaning in disability) in a sample of 247 adults with physical and sensory disabilities. In Study 2, the author examined the association between the two PDI subscales and hope (i.e., pathways and agency) in a subsample of 147 U.S. residents. In Study 1, internal consistency of all instruments was supported and confirmatory factor analyses supported the structural validity of the PDI subscales in a sample representing a broader disability subgroup than the original measurement development study, which had exclusively examined adults with visual impairment and blindness (Zapata, 2019). In Study 2, findings from hierarchical linear regression indicated that scores on disability self-worth and personal meaning were significantly and positively associated with hope scores ( p < .001), after accounting for demographic and disability characteristics. Study 1 found preliminary evidence to support the use of two new PDI subscales (i.e., disability self-worth and personal meaning) in academic research among adult U.S. residents with physical and sensory disabilities. Study 2 introduced disability self-worth and personal meaning as predictors of hope. Given prior research on the relationship between hope and positive adjustment among people with disabilities, these findings contribute to the emerging literature on the predictive role of disability identity in positive life outcomes among adults with disabilities.

scholarly journals Explorando el "apartidismo" en México: ¿apartidistas o apolíticos?

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamín Temkin ◽  
Sandra Solano ◽  
José del Tronco
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Party Loyalty ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Development Levels ◽  
Electoral Competitiveness

RESUMEN: En las últimas décadas, distintos estudios han identificado, especialmente en las democracias avanzadas, un proceso de debilitamiento de la lealtad partidista. Russell Dalton ha explicado este fenómeno a través del incremento de los niveles educativos y de la mayor capacidad de los ciudadanos para obtener información y participar en asuntos públicos de forma independiente a los partidos. Este trabajo analiza la pertinencia del modelo de Dalton para el caso mexicano, donde el proceso de modernización económica y apertura política es mucho más reciente. Los resultados muestran la utilidad del modelo, pero sugieren la necesidad de tomar en cuenta diversos factores políticos, insuficientemente considerados en su marco conceptual. Palabras clave: identificación partidista, comportamiento electoral, México, independientes, movilidad cognitiva. ABSTRACT: In the last two decades, numerous researchers have identified, in highly developed countries, a process that involves the weakening of party loyalty. Russell Dalton proposes that decrease in party adhesion is associated with higher educational levels and the increasing ability of citizens to obtain information and engage in political action independently. This paper analyzes the relevance of Dalton’s model for Mexico, a country with lower development levels and recent electoral competitiveness. Our findings show the relevance of Dalton’s analysis but reveal also the need to take into account political and mobilization factors not sufficiently considered in his conceptual framework.  

Roads to Success: The Career Attainment Experiences of Lawyers With Visual Impairments in South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 152342232110545
Author(s):  
Chang-Kyu Kwon ◽  
Soonok An
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
Hiring Managers ◽  
Career Attainment ◽  
Reasonable Accommodations ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Specific Disability

Problem: Disability issues have long been a topic at the margins of HRD research and have rarely been examined outside the United States context or with a focus on a specific disability type. Additionally, largely due to a homogeneous national culture, people with disabilities in South Korea experience unique barriers in career development. Solution: The authors report the findings of a multiple case study on the career attainment experiences of lawyers with visual impairments in South Korea. Data analyzed from interviews with five participants showed that various individual (perseverance, identity as a person with a visual impairment, self-advocacy, and strategic mindset) and social (family and peer support, reasonable accommodation, precedent, and having a leader with a vision for inclusion) factors contributed to their career attainment. Stakeholders: The findings of this study can aid organizational leaders, hiring managers, HRD practitioners in charge of providing reasonable accommodations, and educators of people with disabilities.

Gender literacy: enhancing female self-concept and contributing to the prevention of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Alpert Sigall ◽  
Mary Strouse Pabst
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Female Self ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Troubles Alimentaires ◽  
And Gender

English This article examines the effect of gender inequity in education and gender identity development on self-concept, body dissatisfaction and eating disorders in females and considers the potential impact of the limited access to information about women's lives, history and contributions, and the concomitant focus on culturally defined attractiveness as a basis for self-worth for females. The authors propose a Corrective Education Model to facilitate the achievement of 'gender literacy': an awareness and understanding of those gender-related issues that affect the context and possibilities of girls' and women's lives. The object of this work is to help women and girls feel more powerful and enhance their sense of self beyond the limits of their body size and shape. French Cette étude examine l'impact de l'inégalité des sexes dans l'éducation, de même que l'incidence du développement de l'identité sexuelle sur l'idée de soi, le rejet de son propre corps, et les troubles alimentaires. Elle analyse aussi les conséquences éventuelles de l'accès limité à l'information sur la vie, l'histoire et l'apport des femmes, ainsi que l'importance accordée à l'étalon culturel de la beauté, étalon à l'aune duquel la femme mesure sa propre valeur. Les auteurs proposent un modèle orthopédagogique pour faciliter l'éveil des femmes à leur identité sexuelle: une prise de conscience et une compréhension de la dynamique sexuelle qui influe sur le milieu de vie des femmes et des filles et sur les possibilités qui leur sont offertes. L'objectif de ce travail est d'amener femmes et filles à prendre conscience de leur capacité accrue d'améliorer l'idée qu'elles ont d'elles-mêmes, indépendamment des contraintes de corps, de taille et de forme.

Evaluating and Modifying an Advanced Manufacturing Curriculum for People with Disabilities

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Goldberg ◽  
Maria Milleville ◽  
Alexis Donaldson ◽  
Victoria Hill ◽  
D. Joshua Marino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
General Population ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing ◽  
Career Stage ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
Program Components

People with disabilities (PwD) are two times as likely to be unemployed as the general population and are particularly not well represented in advanced manufacturing (AM) fields. This study, which features the Advancing Inclusive Manufacturing (AIM) program located at a large University in the Northeast, serves as one approach to empowering PwD by teaching them the skills needed to be successful in an advanced manufacturing (AM) career. The program components help participants identify strengths and build self-advocacy to progress to a subsequent career stage. Seventy-five percent of AIM graduates entered the workforce or continued their education while 25% are pursuing employment in the AM sector. These results suggest the AIM program may result in PwD' re-integration to the workforce and interest in continued professional development. Despite the AM focus of the AIM program, the results are still unclear whether the program is successful in sustained employment in that particular sector.

scholarly journals Individuality as Embodiment of Culture and the Problem of Inclusion: an Outsider’s Perspective

2015 ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
L. S. Chernyak
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Major Obstacle ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Intuitive Notion ◽  
Human Individual ◽  
Mode Of Being

Human Individuality as Embodiment of Culture and the Problem of Inclusion: an Outsider’s Perspective (by Leon Chernyak). The article considers the problem of inclusion from the point of view of a philosopher working in the area of ontological anthropology. Proceeding from this ontological perspective, it argues that the notion of a human being as the embodiment of culture (and, consequently, of the human individual as an embodied entity) constitutes the major obstacle for the development of a theoretically consistent conceptual framework for the intuitive notion of inclusion of people with disabilities. The notion of a human individual as a corporeal (or bodily) entity is proposed as an alternative to the notion of human individual as an embodied entity. On the basis of the notion of the human individual as a corporeal (bodily) entity, the concept of culture as the only form of objectification of the human mode of being is proposed, and, in its turn, on the basis of this concept of culture the following concepts are formulated: health (the integrity of the organism), medical norm, and disease.

scholarly journals Accessibility and Inclusive Tourism Development: Current State and Future Agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brielle Gillovic ◽  
Alison McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Current State ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Participation In Decision Making

Accessibility constitutes one important consideration in the field of scholarship relating to inclusive tourism development because it is fundamentally about the inclusion of people with disabilities in tourism and in society. This conceptual paper maps how accessible tourism is currently positioned against an established framework of inclusive tourism development and gives examples of relevant accessible tourism studies to recommend a future agenda for more inclusive outcomes that move towards sustainability. The seven elements of Scheyvens and Biddulph’s (2018) conceptual framework for inclusive tourism development form an appropriate and useful tool upon which to examine the current state of accessible tourism. The application of this framework reveals that we still have some way to go. We conclude this paper with a future agenda that posits attention to all seven elements of the inclusive tourism framework for accessible tourism, notably, to increase the involvement of people with disabilities as tourism producers and consumers; increase their self-representation and participation in decision-making; transform power relations; reimagine tourism places and people; and break down social barriers. We especially urge researchers to examine the dominant ableist discourse, to consider how our inquiry can be more participatory and inclusive, and to seek to bridge inquiry, industry and community.

Disability Identity Development Scale

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjali J. Forber-Pratt ◽  
Gabriel J. Merrin ◽  
Carlyn O. Mueller ◽  
Larry R. Price ◽  
Heather Hensman Kettrey
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Disability Identity

Service inclusion: the role of disability identity in retail

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Dodds ◽  
Nitha Palakshappa
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Disability Identity ◽  
Consumer Services ◽  
Service Experiences

Purpose The purpose of this research is to explore the role of identity for consumers with disabilities in a retail context. Understanding disability identity is critical to ensuring inclusion in service environments. Despite the growing call to understand the role of identity in consumer services, research on disability identity and the impacts of identity on service inclusion remains minimal. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative methodology generated data through personal narratives from people with disabilities revealing deep insights into the complexity of identity in a fashion retail context. Findings Emergent themes detail five consumer disability identities – authentic unique self, integrated self, community self, expressive self and practical self – seen when viewing service experiences from the perspective of people with lived experience of disability. Individual and collective agency also emerged as key themes that enable people with disabilities to feel a sense of inclusion. Originality/value This research explores the service experiences of people with disabilities in a retail context through a disability identity lens. The authors contribute to service literature by identifying five consumer disability identities that people with a disability adopt through their service experience and present a typology that demonstrates how each identity impacts on agency, with implications for service inclusion.

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