Psychological Community Integration among People with Psychiatric Disabilities and Nondisabled Community Members

Autor/inn/en	Yanos, Philip T.; Stefanic, Ana; Tsemberis, Sam
Titel	Psychological Community Integration among People with Psychiatric Disabilities and Nondisabled Community Members
Quelle	In: Journal of Community Psychology, 39 (2011) 4, S.390-401 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-4392
DOI	10.1002/jcop.20441
Schlagwörter	Community; Mental Disorders; Severe Disabilities; Adults; Life Satisfaction; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Community Attitudes; Predictor Variables; Age Differences; Neighborhoods; Community Characteristics; Independent Living; New York; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Severe disability; Schwerbehinderung; Lebensvollendung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Prädiktor; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Selbstverantwortung
Abstract	This study examined individual and neighborhood predictors of the psychological community integration of people with psychiatric disabilities and nondisabled community members. One hundred twenty-three adults (60 psychiatrically disabled, 63 general community residents), completed measures of sense of community, life satisfaction, psychiatric symptoms, and perceptions of neighborhood. Mental health consumers living in independent scatter-site apartments did not differ from other community members in either sense of community or life satisfaction. Among mental health consumers, neither symptoms nor demographic variables predicted sense of community, whereas objective neighborhood characteristics did. Conversely, among community members, age and symptoms predicted sense of community while objective neighborhood characteristics did not; perceived neighborhood characteristics predicted sense of community in both samples. Findings suggest that consumers living in independent housing may achieve levels of psychological community integration comparable to other community members, and that neighborhood factors impact degree of community integration in this population. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10