Disability Identity and Attitudes Toward Cure in a Sample of Disabled Activists

Author:

Hahn Harlan D.1,Belt Todd L.2

Affiliation:

1. Harlan D. Hahn is Professor of Political Science and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California. He specializes in disability policy, American politics and urban politics. Among his books are: Disabled Persons and Earthquake Hazards (co-authored), Referendum Voting: Social Status and Policy Preferences (co-authored), Readings in Urban Politics: Past, Present, and Future (co-authored), and Corruption in the American Political System (co-authored). He has...

2. Todd L. Belt is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo. His fields of specialization are American politics, research methodology, and international relations. He has written several conference papers on issues in political psychology, such as political identity, alienation, emotions, and candidate evaluations among voters.

Abstract

This study investigates the assumption that disabled people want improvements in their functional abilities, or complete cures. Contrary to this assumption, many disabled activists are found to have attitudes in which they refuse treatment that promises a cure. In order to explain this attitude, different sources of disability identity are isolated as potential predictor variables. A multivariate model reveals that self-identity related to a personal affirmation of disability is a significant predictor of refusal of treatment, as is the age of onset of disability. Implications for interactions with medical professionals and utility-based modeling of medical treatment seeking are discussed.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Social Psychology

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