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Hannum, James W. Hannum, James W. Rounds, James Neville, Helen A. Trach, John S. Collins, Kimberly McCaughey, Tiffany 2010-01-06T16:13:17Z 2010-01-06T16:13:17Z 2010-01-06T16:13:17Z Decades of research have examined factors involved in complex, and sometimes stressful, interpersonal interactions between individuals with and without disabilities. The present study applies structural equation modeling to test an integrative model of individual and situational factors affecting encounters between able-bodied college students and their peers with mobility impairments. A vignette design was employed that involved input from focus groups of college students with mobility impairments. Data was collected from 360 able-bodied students at a Mid-Western university. Results provided support for a structural model that included previous contact with disability, global disability attitudes, and negative affect in predicting behavioral intentions to avoid. Affective arousal emerged as a strong predictor of behavioral intentions to avoid peers with disabilities. Global disability attitudes were fairly strongly predictive of negative affect and weakly predictive of behavioral avoidance. Secondary analyses explored whether emotion regulation strategies would moderate the effect of negative affect on behavioral intentions to avoid future encounters with a peer in a wheelchair. Reappraisal and suppression emerged as weak but statistically significant predictors of behavioral avoidance. Further, results indicated modest support for the hypothesis that reappraisal can lower the likelihood that an able-bodied individual who experiences affective arousal will choose to avoid further interactions. Implications for research, clinical practice, and campus interventions are considered. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2009-11-30T15:19:47Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 McCaughey_Tiffany.pdf: 839180 bytes, checksum: 4c12883070f4fc264863d0e425864613 (MD5) McCaughey_Tiffany.docx: 5777177 bytes, checksum: b55c2cf6c42b3f5692b2834c4741fd03 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2010-01-06T16:13:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 5 license.txt: 4073 bytes, checksum: 0557252a3b8cb80b0087fa5b66c1eb32 (MD5) 1_McCaughey_Tiffany.docx: 5777233 bytes, checksum: a51cb4a5b63d4ff90705faf8cc660443 (MD5) McCaughey_Tiffany.pdf: 837523 bytes, checksum: 30b367278c984cb103ae875a355d6ebb (MD5) 1_McCaughey_Tiffany.pdf: 839180 bytes, checksum: 4c12883070f4fc264863d0e425864613 (MD5) 2_McCaughey_Tiffany.pdf: 837523 bytes, checksum: 30b367278c984cb103ae875a355d6ebb (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/14585 en Copyright 2009 Tiffany McCaughey Disability Able-bodied persons Affect Emotional response Disability attitudes Avoidance Social relationships Emotion regulation Individual and Situational Factors Associated With Social Barriers for Persons With Mobility Impairment 2009-12 Educational Psychology 1616 Educational Psychology 0210 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Educatnl Psychology -UIUC 10KS0210PHD