PMID- 22686550
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121029
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 1939-1544 (Electronic)
IS  - 0090-5550 (Linking)
VI  - 57
IP  - 2
DP  - 2012 May
TI  - Revisiting the mine/thine problem: a sensitizing exercise for clinic, classroom, 
      and attributional research.
PG  - 113-23
LID - 10.1037/a0027967 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: Two studies revisit a sensitivity exercise designed to heighten 
      awareness of the social psychology of disability. The "mine/thine problem" 
      (Wright, 1975) is an imagination exercise where one's own (self-defined) 
      disability is paired with a different disability. Participants imagine whether 
      they would prefer to retain their disability or to exchange it for the other. 
      METHOD: Study 1 (N = 52) was a conceptual replication, while Study 2 (N = 50) 
      paired participants' own disabilities with one independently rated as more or 
      less severe. Study 2 participants also completed the Scale of Attitudes Toward 
      Disabled Persons (SADP; Antonak & Livneh, 1988) 3 times: 1 week before 
      participation, immediately after, and 2 weeks later. RESULTS: Replicating Wright 
      (1975), participants retained their own disabilities (78% in Study 1, 90% in 
      Study 2); varying the paired disabilities' severity had no effect on preference 
      in Study 2, where, compared with pretest scores, participants expressed more 
      favorable attitudes on the 2 posttest assessments of the SADP. CONCLUSIONS: The 
      exercise sensitizes participants to insider (people with disabilities) and 
      outsider (nondisabled) perspectives, leading to more favorable attitudes toward 
      disability. Rehabilitation psychologists will benefit by revisiting and using 
      this perspective-broadening exercise in clinic, classroom, and research settings.
CI  - PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved.
FAU - Dunn, Dana S
AU  - Dunn DS
AD  - Department of Psychology, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA 18018-6650, USA. 
      dunn@moravian.edu
FAU - Fisher, David J
AU  - Fisher DJ
FAU - Beard, Brittany M
AU  - Beard BM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - Rehabil Psychol
JT  - Rehabilitation psychology
JID - 0365337
SB  - IM
MH  - Activities of Daily Living/psychology
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Aged, 80 and over
MH  - Attitude
MH  - Choice Behavior
MH  - Disabled Persons/*psychology/*rehabilitation
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Imagination
MH  - *Internal-External Control
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Problem Solving
MH  - Psychology, Social
MH  - Quality of Life/psychology
MH  - *Sensitivity Training Groups
MH  - Sick Role
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2012/06/13 06:00
MHDA- 2012/10/30 06:00
CRDT- 2012/06/13 06:00
PHST- 2012/06/13 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/06/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/10/30 06:00 [medline]
AID - 2012-15239-003 [pii]
AID - 10.1037/a0027967 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Rehabil Psychol. 2012 May;57(2):113-23. doi: 10.1037/a0027967.