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Physically disabled people, numbering 330, undergoing the 1st week of a course of Industrial Rehabilitation were administered the Acceptance of Loss Scale (ALS); Ravens Progressive Matrices (RPM) and Maudsley Personality Inventory (MPI). On completing 5 weeks, they were administered with ALS again. The difference between the participant’s first and second scores was used to determine gain or loss in ALS and each participant’s mean score was calculated. Participants were grouped in terms of the nature of their disability into visible, hidden, sensory/mental. They were in turn classified on the basis of their ALS mean score into good, average and poor accepters of loss. The mean score of these three groups on MPI and RPM were then compared within the three broad nature of disability categorization. Analysis of variance revealed personality factors as the only significant source of variance, while nature of disability just failed to achieve significance at .05 level. Mean gain in ALS was highest among the poor accepters of loss, showing the Industrial Rehabilitation Program’s beneficial effect on adjustment.
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Osuji, O.N. Personality Factors in Acceptance of Loss among the Physically Disabled. Psychol Rec 35, 23–28 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03394905
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