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How the Illness Experience Predicts Key Psychosocial Outcomes in Veterans with Brain Injury

Tyler, Carmen M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1494576111782556

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2017, Master of Arts in Psychology, Cleveland State University, College of Sciences and Health Professions.
The object of this thesis was to examine the illness experience of veterans who have suffered either a stroke or traumatic brain injury. Predictors of key psychosocial outcomes were identified by looking at the illness experience through the veterans’ perspective via self-report measures. Results confirmed relationships between the stressors role captivity, low self-esteem, decreased socialization, and dyad relationship strain and the outcome of depression and between the stressors physical strain and emotional strain and the outcome social/recreational participation for this population. More importantly, role captivity, social/recreational strain, and self-esteem uniquely predicted depression, and both physical and emotional strain uniquely predicted social/recreational strain in veterans with brain injury. Not only has this study demonstrated how the illness experience predicts key psychosocial outcomes in VBIs, it has also illustrated that self-reports from VBIs are reliable and valid indicators of their illness experiences and should be seriously considered when constructing treatment goals and plans.
Katherine Judge, PhD (Committee Chair)
Harvey Sterns, PhD (Committee Member)
Eric Allard, PhD (Committee Member)
69 p.
Armed Forces; Developmental Psychology; Health; Psychology
veterans; illness experience; brain injury; psychosocial outcomes; stressors; stress process model; perceived distress; appraisal; self-report; role captivity; social-recreational strain; dyad relationship strain; depression; self-esteem;

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  • Tyler, C. M. (2017). How the Illness Experience Predicts Key Psychosocial Outcomes in Veterans with Brain Injury [Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1494576111782556

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tyler, Carmen. How the Illness Experience Predicts Key Psychosocial Outcomes in Veterans with Brain Injury. 2017. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1494576111782556.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tyler, Carmen. "How the Illness Experience Predicts Key Psychosocial Outcomes in Veterans with Brain Injury." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1494576111782556

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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