@article{ref1,
title="Brain injury beliefs, self-awareness, and coping: A preliminary cluster analytic study based within the self-regulatory model",
journal="Neuropsychological rehabilitation",
year="2010",
author="Medley, Andrew R. and Powell, Theresa and Worthington, Andrew and Chohan, Gagandeep and Jones, Chris",
volume="20",
number="6",
pages="899-921",
abstract="The interplay between individuals' subjective beliefs about traumatic brain injury, their coping style and their self-awareness might provide a more helpful guide to rehabilitation goals than looking at these factors in isolation. We therefore conducted a preliminary study to determine whether the Self-Regulatory Model can identify different clusters of individuals according to belief schemata, and to explore whether clusters differed across measures of coping and self-awareness. The Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised was administered to 37 participants with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), along with the Ways of Coping Checklist-Revised and the European Brain Injury Questionnaire. Clinicians also rated clients' level of difficulties using the latter scale, and the discrepancy between client and clinician scores was used as a measure of self-awareness. Hierarchical cluster analysis distinguished three groups based on profiles of subjective beliefs about TBI, labelled &quot;low control/ambivalent&quot;, &quot;high salience&quot;, and &quot;high optimism&quot;. The high salience group was characterised by beliefs about serious consequences of the injury and greater self-awareness, and reported a greater range of coping strategies. The other two groups showed lower levels of awareness but differed in coping styles, with the low control/ambivalent group showing a trend towards more avoidance coping against a background of lower perceived control.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0960-2011",
doi="10.1080/09602011.2010.517688",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2010.517688"
}