The experience of male emerging adults with physical disabilties in a public hospital in Metro Manila: Self-acceptance and social well-being

• Main Authors: Aguilar, Jean Louise L., Picardal, Monaliza G., Remoquillo, Patricia Louise M., Ygona, Alexandra Ruth O.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Self-acceptance; People with disabilities > Psychology; Self-esteem in men; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/8760
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study aims to understand the self-acceptance and social well-being of male emerging adults with physical disabilities through their experiences. Participants were eleven (11) male emerging adults aged 18-29 years old with spinal cord injury and have other motor dysfunctions from a public hospital in Metro Manila. The research utilized a qualitative research method. Through frequency count, the top two themes that emerged were accounted for. Helplessness and incapacity to walk were the most occuring theme for self-acceptance, pakikisama and stable relationships for social well-being and activities of daily living and acceptance of disability were overlapping themes in account of self-acceptance and social well-being. In this study, it was found that patients' helplessness and incapacity to walk influenced their self-acceptance primarily because of their inability to provide for their families. For social well-being, pakikisama and stable relationships facilities coping and reliance to their caregivers. Finally, their inability to accomplish activities of daily living on their own affects their acceptance of disability negatively, because they feel as if they can no longer contribute to society.