Open AccessAppraisals of DisAbility Primary and Secondary Scale—Short Form (ADAPSS−sf): Psychometrics and association with mental health among U.S. military veterans with spinal cord injury.
Author(s) -
Scott D. McDonald,
Lisa D. Goldberg-Looney,
Melody Mickens,
Michael S. Ellwood,
Brian Mutchler,
Paul B. Perrin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
rehabilitation psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.673
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1939-1544
pISSN - 0090-5550
DOI - 10.1037/rep0000230
Subject(s) - psychology , psycinfo , clinical psychology , mental health , veterans affairs , spinal cord injury , psychological resilience , coping (psychology) , life satisfaction , psychiatry , medline , medicine , psychotherapist , spinal cord , political science , law
Cognitive appraisals, that is, interpretations of what is observed and the personal relevance attributed to those observations, affect one's behavior and well-being. Despite the centrality of appraisals in the transactional model of stress and coping, the application of spinal cord injury (SCI)-specific appraisals to adjustment is a recent development. This study examined the psychometric properties of a measure of SCI-specific appraisals, the Appraisals of DisAbility Primary and Secondary Scale-Short Form (ADAPSS-sf).