Abstract
20 orthopaedically disabled hospital patients responded to a self-ideal discrepancy scale and the Eysenck Personality Inventory. The severely disabled Ss were more self-accepting and less neurotic than the marginally disabled Ss. A direct relationship obtained between age and a composite measure of maladjustment ( r = .42, p < .001), but this was not due simply to the duration of the disabilities. The results were interpreted as supporting the role-conflict hypothesis rather than the social-rejection hypothesis concerning the psychological consequences of physical disability.
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