OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between employment status and community access, perceived community discrimination, social support from significant others, depressive symptoms, and gender-related variables for 83 men living with spinal cord injury. STUDY DESIGN: Correlational research. SETTING: Internet-based investigation employing spinal cord injury listservs. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Participant employment status. RESULTS: A forced-entry hierarchical logistic regression indicated that means of injury, community access and perceived community discrimination, social support from significant others, depressive symptoms, and men's adherence to masculine norms for primacy of work, self-reliance, and emotional control significantly predicted employment status. CONCLUSIONS: Psychosocial variables such as community access, perceived discrimination, social support from significant others, depressive symptoms, and gender identity represent important and understudied predictors of employment status among men living with spinal cord injury.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between employment status and community access, perceived community discrimination, social support from significant others, depressive symptoms, and gender-related variables for 83 men living with spinal cord injury. STUDY DESIGN: Correlational research. SETTING: Internet-based investigation employing spinal cord injury listservs. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Participant employment status. RESULTS: A forced-entry hierarchical logistic regression indicated that means of injury, community access and perceived community discrimination, social support from significant others, depressive symptoms, and men's adherence to masculine norms for primacy of work, self-reliance, and emotional control significantly predicted employment status. CONCLUSIONS: Psychosocial variables such as community access, perceived discrimination, social support from significant others, depressive symptoms, and gender identity represent important and understudied predictors of employment status among men living with spinal cord injury.
Authors: Charles H Bombardier; Casey B Azuero; Jesse R Fann; Donald D Kautz; J Scott Richards; Sunil Sabharwal Journal: Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil Date: 2021
Authors: Feng-Hang Chang; Christine A Helfrich; Wendy J Coster; E Sally Rogers Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2015-09-10 Impact factor: 3.390