A Study on the conceptualization of disability identity

In the present study, we tried to establish the stages to be used in the conceptualization on the disability identity for the first time, which could propose a new paradigm for understanding disability. The concept of disability identity was drawn by inductive method. The experience of impairment and the contextual meaning was classified according to the categorized stage. To classify the stages of disability identity, we performed literature reviewing on the identity and the minority identity and tried to perform contents analysis based upon the focus group interview and in-depth interviews on the persons with spinal cord injury. As a result, the stages of disability identity could exhibit the changes in psycho-social effects : confirmity, dissonance, resistance and immersion, introspection and integrative awareness. In addition, according to the stages acquired from the analysis of interview contents, disability identity showed universality and specialty; hierarchy and continuity. Finally, we could suggest that both subjective and objective self constitute the disability identity, which could make us to understand the psycho-emotional effect on the disability from social perspective. Taken together, the present study could propose the theoretical basis for the further studies on the conceptualization for the first time.

keywords: 개념화, 장애 정체성, 포커스 그룹 면접(focus group interview), 심층면접(in-depth interview), conceptualization, disability identity, focus group interview, in-depth interview, conceptualization, disability identity, focus group interview, in-depth interview

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Vol.10 No.4

A Study on the conceptualization of disability identity

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The Korean Journal of Health Psychology