Subjective well-being in female partners of the traumatically head-injured : the roles of time, life circumstances, personality and survivor functioning
Year: 1996
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The present study centered around the adjustment of female partners of traumatically head-injured men.Subjects were sixty women, who knew their male partner at the time of his head-injury and were living with him at the time of data collection.Results were presented in terms of three objectives that the present study was designed to meet.A first objective was to add to a growing base of descriptive information about post-in~ury adjustment in family members of the head-injured.The findings indicated that the present sample's adjustment consistently fell between that of normal adults (who were better adjusted) and psychiatric samples (who were more poorly adjusted).Moreover, the present sample reported more adjustment problems than other samples of family members of the traumatically head-injured.A second objective was t o investigate the role of time since injury as a mediator of the adjustment of family members and their head-injured partners.Overall, the present study provided no evidence for systematic changes in adjustment over time: none of the adjustment variables changed strongly and consistently as a function of time, and no trend toward better or worse adjustment over time emerged.A third objective was to investigate the relative efficacy of three families of variables (Life Circumstances, Personality Disposition, Head-Injured Man's Functioning) to predict three aspects of family member Subjective Well-being.The family of Life Circumstances variables was most strongly associated with Subjective Wellbeing, followed by Personality Disposition and the Head-Injured Man'sFunctioning.An inspection of the importance of individual predictors within the families of variables suggested that, in each case, there was one powerful predictor variable.These predictor variables were social adjustment problems iii (which was by far the best predictor), family member neuroticism and family member ratings of the head-injured man's psychosocial competency.Results were interpreted in terms of their clinical and empirical implications.many individuals.I would like to thank my senior supervisor, Dr. Marilyn
Source: Summit (Simon Fraser University)
Author: Susanne R Schibler
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Neurology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W47625720