Citation

Arigo D, Haggerty K. J. Health Psychol. 2016; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Bancroft NeuroRehab, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105316669583

PMID

27708125

Abstract

Little is known about social influences on long-term rehabilitation outcomes for traumatic brain injury, particularly social comparisons (i.e. self-evaluations relative to others). Patients in long-term rehabilitation (n = 31) completed assessments at baseline and 1 year. Self-reported social comparison orientation was comparable to existing samples and showed stability over 1 year; affective responses to comparisons (e.g. frustration) were less stable. Social comparison orientation and affective responses were related to baseline executive and psychosocial functioning (rs = 0.34-0.53) and predicted worse impairment and depression at 1 year (ds = 0.67, 1.39). Greater attention to comparisons in long-term rehabilitation could improve outcomes.

© The Author(s) 2016.

Language: en