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dc.title | Modeling Self-Agency among People with Schizophrenia: Empirical Evidence for Consumer-Based Recovery. | |
dc.contributor.author | Chiu, M.Y.-L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Davidson, L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lo, W.T.-L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Yiu, M.G.-C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ho, W.W.-N. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-14T08:41:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-04-14T08:41:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-10 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Chiu, M.Y.-L., Davidson, L., Lo, W.T.-L., Yiu, M.G.-C., Ho, W.W.-N. (2013-10). Modeling Self-Agency among People with Schizophrenia: Empirical Evidence for Consumer-Based Recovery.. Psychopathology 46 (6) : 413-420. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1159/000345834 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 02544962 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/50245 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Self-agency - the awareness of one's own capacity to make decisions and to engage in deliberate action - is often interfered with or lost during the course of severe mental illness. Most existing literature on self-agency is either of experimental or qualitative nature, and empirical evidence is scanty. Sampling and Methods: This paper draws on a subset of empirical data from a larger recovery study that involved 204 people with schizophrenia in the community. Structural equation models are built to contrast the models with and without the contribution of self-agency. Results: The self-agency factor loads significantly on variables from five major areas of recovery (hope, empowerment, resilience, self-responsibility and self-mastery). Structural equation models show that the incorporation of this self-agency construct has vastly improved the modeling of the adverse effect of stigma on the quality of life of these subjects. The model with self-agency fitted the criteria better, and explained more total variance (increased from 56 to 80%) for the quality of life of these subjects. Conclusions: Cross-sectional empirical findings appear to support the claim that self-agency is an important construct that cuts through many dimensions of recovery. Initial discussions are made on the nature and function of self-agency, and its relations with recovery concepts and components. Copyright © 2013 S. Karger AG, Basel. | |
dc.description.uri | http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000345834 | |
dc.source | Scopus | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.department | SOCIAL WORK | |
dc.description.doi | 10.1159/000345834 | |
dc.description.sourcetitle | Psychopathology | |
dc.description.volume | 46 | |
dc.description.issue | 6 | |
dc.description.page | 413-420 | |
dc.description.coden | PSYHE | |
dc.identifier.isiut | 000326062200007 | |
Appears in Collections: | Staff Publications |
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