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A Longitudinal Study of Relationships between Identity Continuity and Anxiety Following Brain Injury

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, May 2017
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Title
A Longitudinal Study of Relationships between Identity Continuity and Anxiety Following Brain Injury
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Frontiers in Psychology, May 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00648
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R. S. Walsh, Orla T. Muldoon, Donal G. Fortune, Stephen Gallagher

Abstract

Objective: Anxiety is of particular importance following acquired brain injury (ABI), because anxiety has been identified as a significant predictor of functional outcomes. Continuity of self has been linked to post ABI adjustment and research has linked self-discrepancy to anxiety. This longitudinal study investigates the impact of affiliative and 'self as doer' self-categorisations anxiety. Materials and Methods: Data was collected at two time points. Fifty-three adult ABI survivors participating in post-acute community neuro-rehabilitation participated at time one and 32 of these participated at time two. Participants completed a 28-item identity questionnaire based on Leach et al.'s (2008) multicomponent model of ingroup identification which measured the strength of affiliative and self as doer identities. Anxiety was measured using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Results: Analysis indicates a significant mediated relationship between affiliative identification and anxiety via self as doer identification. Contrary to initial prediction, this relationship was significant for those with consistency in affiliative self-categorisation and inconsistency in 'self as doer' self-categorisation. Conclusion: These findings can be interpreted as evidencing the importance of identity continuity and multiplicity following ABI and contribute to the understanding of these through the use of a social identity approach.

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Unknown 33 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 12%
Lecturer 2 6%
Student > Postgraduate 2 6%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 12 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 10 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 6%
Unspecified 1 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 3%
Other 4 12%
Unknown 14 42%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 June 2017.
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#4,138,028
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#6,952
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#72,830
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#211
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