creator Heyne, Mark Michael The positive relationship between negative attributional style and depression has been established in both those with and without chronic illness or physical disability; however, this relationship remains uncharacterized in those with spinal cord injury (SCI), which is surprising, given this condition’s significant potential for negative psychosocial implications. Although there is evidence that the association among these two variables generalizes across cultures and disabilities, other findings suggests that the Chinese have a more negative attributional style than their Western counterparts, which could alter the relationship between attributional style and depression among Chinese with SCI. Likewise, the construct of acceptance of disability (AD) and its correlates has been covered extensively in Western samples with SCI, but has received virtually no attention in Eastern samples. The present study examined these variables within the context of SCI in a Chinese sample. Participants were 158 Chinese individuals with SCI who completed a battery of self-report measures of demographic, injury-related, and psychosocial variables. Cluster analysis results suggested three distinct clusters based on attributional style (positive, neutral, negative). Those in the positive attributional style cluster were more likely to have tetraplegia than paraplegia, but exhibited less functional disability and depressive symptoms, and higher AD than the negative cluster. Path analysis indicated that higher functional disability predicted both more negative attributional style and higher depressive symptomology; attributional style did not directly predict depression, in contrast to findings from previous studies. Higher depressive symptomology was found to predict lower AD, consistent with existing research. Submitted by Dana Lamparello (dlampare@iit.edu) on 2012-02-28T17:02:39Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Mark_Heyne_Dissertation_3-26-11.pdf: 652249 bytes, checksum: 20bb6df0915f3af91e324783742fe27f (MD5) Mark_Heyne_Title_Page.pdf: 105069 bytes, checksum: 6e7eee5de6af50a90c007ef46db8f69c (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-02-28T17:02:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Mark_Heyne_Dissertation_3-26-11.pdf: 652249 bytes, checksum: 20bb6df0915f3af91e324783742fe27f (MD5) Mark_Heyne_Title_Page.pdf: 105069 bytes, checksum: 6e7eee5de6af50a90c007ef46db8f69c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05 Ph.D. in Psychology, May 2011 2011-03-27 2011-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2493 en Dissertation born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access PSYCH / Institute of Psychology Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department