Affiliations: Rehabilitation Counseling Program, Portland State
University, Portland, OR 97207, USA | Rehabilitation Counseling Program, University of
Arkansas at Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Note: [] Rehabilitation Counseling Program, Department of Special &
Counselor Ed, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207, USA.
Tel.: +1 503 725 4719; E-mail: livnehh@pdx.edu
Abstract: The intent of this study was to examine the relationships between
both denial and perceived visibility of disability and psychosocial adaptation
to the condition. To this end, responses of 97 college students with
disabilities to measures that included sociodemographic, disability-related and
psychological variables, as well as denial, perceived visibility of disability,
and psychosocial adaptation were analyzed. Results indicated that, after
controlling for participants' sociodemographic, disability-related, and
selected experiential variables, only denial was found to contribute
significantly to psychosocial adaptation to disability.
Keywords: denial, perceived visibility, disability, psychosocial adaptation, RIDI, college students
