Mobility Impairment and the Construction of Identity

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Heather Ridolfo and Brian Ward explore the experiences of people with impaired mobility, enhancing our understanding of why some embrace a disabled identity, why others reject it, and the personal and societal implications of both choices. Book Title Contents List of Tables and Figures Table 1.1. Descriptive Characteristics of Demographic and Level of Impairment Measures among Mobility-Impaired Adults in theQuantitative Sample Table 1.2. Level of Impairment Among Interview Respondents in the Qualitative Sample Table 1.3. Demographic Characteristics of Interview Respondents in the Qualitative Sample Figure 2.1. The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Impairment, Disability, and Handicap Figure 2.2. The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functionality, Disability, and Health Figure 2.3 Conceptual Model for the Development of a Disabled Identity Table 4.1. Descriptive Statistics of Mobility-impaired Individuals Who Self-identify as Disabled and Not Disabled Table 4.2. Identifying as Disabled Regressed on Environmental Barriers, Social Engagement, Impairment, and Reflected Appraisals Table 4.3. Claiming an Identity as Disabled by Reflected Appraisals Table 4.4. Physical Barriers, Social Barriers, and Impairment Experienced by Respondents from the Qualitative Interviews Table 4.5. Self Processes from Qualitative Interviews Table 4.6. Number of Individuals Claiming an Identity as Disabled by Reflected Appraisals Table 5.1. Identifying as Disabled Regressed on Environmental Barriers, Social Engagement, Impairment, and Reflected Appraisals among Females Table 5.2. Identifying as Disabled Regressed on Environmental Barriers,Social Engagement, Impairment, and Reflected Appraisals among Males Table A1. Criteria for Selection into the National Health Interview Survey on Disability Table A2. Descriptive Statistics of the Non-Standardized Analytic Sample of Mobility Impaired Adults Table A3. Descriptive Statistics of the Standardized Final Sample of Mobility Impaired Adults Figure A1. Simple Model of Indirect Effects Table A4. Results of the Product-of-Coefficients Tests of Significance ofIndirect Effects of Environmental Barriers, Social Engagement, andImpairment on Identifying as Disabled Through Reflected Appraisals Acknowledgments 1-Embracing Disability? 2-Building on Models of Disability 3-Everyday Experiences of the Body and the Environment 4-The Dynamics of Disability Identity 5-Taking Account of Gender 6-Implications for Theory and Policy Appendix A: Quantitative Data, Methods, and Analysis Appendix B: Qualitative Data, Methods, and Analysis Appendix C: Glossary of Terms References Index About the Book