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Robin M. Carlson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Adults with intellectual disabilities in Connecticut experience more than twice the national average of being subjected to legal guardianship (National Core Indicators, 2022). When plenary guardianship is granted, the individual does not retain their rights to make their own decisions. This phenomenological qualitative study investigates the…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Decision Making, Individual Power
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Toste, Jessica R.; Raley, Sheida K.; Gross Toews, Samantha; Shogren, Karrie A.; Coelho, Gabriela – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2021
Students with disabilities experience pronounced inequities in the education system, which have been compounded by risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study sought to understand the experiences of students with disabilities and the strengths that facilitated their wellbeing during this period of adversity. In summer 2020,…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Individual Power, Personal Autonomy, Self Advocacy
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Hofland, Brian F. – Gerontologist, 1988
Presents review of perspectives from law, medical ethics, and psychosocial research to emphasize importance and multi-disciplinary nature of autonomy issues in long term care and to clarify background of Retirement Research Foundation's Personal Autonomy in Long Term Care Initiative. Introduces supplemental issue of "The Gerontologist"…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Decision Making, Ethics, Individual Power
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Luptak, Marilyn K.; Boult, Chad – Gerontologist, 1994
Studied effectiveness of intervention to help frail elders to record advance directives (ADs). In collaboration with physicians and lay volunteer, social worker provided information/counseling to elderly subjects, families, and proxies in series of visits to geriatric evaluation and management clinic. Seventy-one percent of subjects recorded ADs.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Frail Elderly, Individual Power, Older Adults
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Streib, Gordon F.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1985
Examined how autonomy and decision-making manifest themselves in 36 retirement communities in Arizona, California, Florida, and New Jersey. Results indicated that most residents let others make decisions. Autonomy was basically latent, with residents wanting the possibility of decision-making when crisis arises or community stability is…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Individual Power, Leadership, Older Adults
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Swensen, Clifford H. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1992
Results of research directly and indirectly applicable to life support indicate that patients and intimates suffer less psychological distress if those who have close positive relationship with patient maintain emotional closeness to patient and participate in making decisions concerning life support. Suggests that people feel less distress if…
Descriptors: Death, Decision Making, Family Relationship, Family Role
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Kastenbaum, Robert J. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1994
Presents interview with Ralph Mero, Executive Director of Compassion in Dying, Seattle (Washington)-based organization that has brought new voice to controversial issue of physician-assisted rational suicide. Mero explains how his years as minister watching people suffer with cancer or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome led him to work for…
Descriptors: Death, Decision Making, Euthanasia, Individual Power
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Soenens, Bart; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Lens, Willy; Luyckx, Koen; Goossens, Luc; Beyers, Wim; Ryan, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
In current research on parenting, 2 ways of conceptualizing perceived parental autonomy support can be distinguished. Parental autonomy support can be defined in terms of promotion of independence (PI) or in terms of promotion of volitional functioning (PVF). This study aimed to establish the empirical distinctiveness of both conceptualizations…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Structural Equation Models, Personal Autonomy, Parent Child Relationship
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Rogers, James R.; Britton, Paula J. – Counseling Psychologist, 1994
Responds to Werth's (1992) arguing for rational suicide for individuals diagnosed with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Commends Werth's willingness to address issue of rational suicide for individuals diagnosed with AIDS, but expresses concerns about data supporting his rationale and implications for counseling psychology and society…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Competence, Counseling Services, Decision Making
Tetrick, Lois E.; And Others – 1984
A review of the literature on job analysis and job evaluation reveals several aspects of jobs which are important to organizations. To better explain the psychological dimensions of the work environment, three models of perceived job characteristics were compared using confirmatory factor analysis: Walsh, Taber, and Beehr's (1980) components of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Factor Structure, Individual Power, Information Processing
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Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1986
A scale developed to aid in investigation of students' perceived control at school is described, and data on its reliability, validity, and factor structure are reported. Findings reported indicate the usefulness of the perceived control scale by summarizing data from several studies. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Correlation, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hughes, Carolyn; Pitkin, Sarah E.; Lorden, Sarah W. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1998
A cumulative review and analysis of 27 empirical investigations that assessed the preferences and choices of individuals with severe or profound mental retardation found that, since 1978, a technology has been evolving that can assess preference and choice via six types of participant responses across a variety of stimulus presentations. Research…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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Hoffman, Molly K. – Death Studies, 1994
Considers Directive to Physician, Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare Decisions, and Medical Ethics Decision Form. Notes importance of process individuals go through in defining what quality of life means to them. Sees current struggle being individual articulation of one's wishes based on personal definition of quality of life set forth in…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Beliefs, Death, Decision Making
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Sands, Deanna J.; Doll, Beth – Journal of Special Education, 1996
This discussion of the developmental underpinnings of self-determination for students with disabilities considers metacognition, self-perception, social problem solving, and autonomous decision making. It urges developing school policies contributing to self-sufficiency; ameliorating curricular, instructional, and service delivery systems…
Descriptors: Child Development, Decision Making, Developmental Tasks, Disabilities
Melda, Kerri, Ed. – 1997
This guide discusses participant-driven managed support in which people with disabilities and their families steer their own futures by having more control over the money used to provide long-term supports. After an introductory chapter, chapter 2, "What Is Managed Care," describes managed care, traditional managed care players, and the 10 tools…
Descriptors: Adults, Decision Making, Disabilities, Health Maintenance Organizations
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