Document Type
Conference Paper
RIS ID
3471
Citation
Dixon, Roselyn M.; Marsh, Herb W.; and Craven, Rhonda G., 2004, Moving Out: The impact of deinsitutionalisation on salient affective variables for people with mild intellectual disabilities, in H. Marsh, J. Baumert, G. Richards & U. Trautwein (eds.), Self-concept, Motivation and Identity: Where to from here?, Proceedings of the Third International Biennial SELF Research Conference, Co-hosted by Max Planck Institute for Human Development Centre for Educational Research and the SELF Research Centre University of Western Sydney, 1-12.
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Abstract
This study examined the affective functioning of people with mild intellectual disabilities through examining salient variables that impact of people with disabilities who have been deinstitutioned. Its primary purpose was to extend previous research by incoporating adaptive behaviour, quality of life, in combination with multidimensional selfconcept, self-esteem and locus of control, in a longitudinal/comparison design. The study utilised a longitudinal/comparison group design. The results showed that the people who were deinstitutionalised benefited in some aspects of multi-dimensional self-concept, some subscales of quality of life, and three out of five factors of adaptive behaviour. The findings have important implications for current theory of the self-concept for people with intellectual disabilities, the provision of programmes and techniques to improve self-concept, hence the social integration of people who have been deinstitutionalised.