Abstract
Personal disability identity (PDI) refers to disability self-concept and includes various attitudes toward disability. In this study, we examined whether the PDI attitudes of disability self-worth and personal meaning were predictors of psychosocial functioning. Using hierarchical regression to control for sociodemographic and disability characteristics, we examined the unique contributions of these two PDI attitudes to life satisfaction, anxiety/depression, and general self-efficacy in a sample of 1,203 employed U.S. adults with LD and/or ADHD. PDI attitudes (disability self-worth and personal meaning) explained significant additional variance on both outcomes, after accounting for control variables. Results indicated that (a) self-worth (β = -.25, p < .001) and personal meaning (β = -.24, p < .001) were negatively associated with anxiety/depression, (b) self-worth was positively associated with general self-efficacy (β = .31, p < .001), and (c) personal meaning was positively associated with life satisfaction (β = .30, p < .001). Present findings suggest that disability identity is worthy of attention in research on neurodevelopmental disabilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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