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    COLLEGE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES' MOTIVATION TO UTILIZE DISABILITY SUPPORT SERVICES: A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION

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    Date
    2012
    Author
    Meyer, Rachel Heather
    Advisor
    Kaplan, Avi
    Committee member
    Forman, Abbe
    Thurman, S. Kenneth
    DuCette, Joseph P.
    Schifter, Catherine
    Department
    Educational Psychology
    Subject
    Educational Psychology
    Decision Making
    Disabilities
    Motivation
    Self-determination Theory
    Support Services
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/1913
    
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/1895
    Abstract
    The current study investigated the motivation of college students with disabilities to disclose their disability(s) to the university and to utilize disability support services. Eleven college students with a diversity of invisible disabilities from a large university were interviewed using a narrative approach. Analysis involved a combination of inductive and deductive procedures informed by Self-Determination Theory (SDT) (Ryan & Deci, 2002; Deci & Ryan, 2000). The analysis identified six themes in the narratives within which students' experiences were analyzed as more or less supportive of their psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness: (1) Disability Construction; (2) High School Experience; (3) Significant Adults; (4) Disability Resources and Services (DRS) and other Services; (5) Interactions with Faculty; and (6) Interactions with Peers. An important conclusion of the analysis was that students' motivation and decision to disclose their disability and to utilize support services was framed by the level of acceptance of their disability--or, in self-determination theory terms, their integration of their disability to their authentic self. Students' narratives that suggested integration of the disability to the self also included indication of the students being more proactive, agentic, flexible, adaptive, and open in disclosing their disability to the university, to faculty and to peers, and in utilizing support services. In contrast, students' narratives that suggested partial or non-integration of the disability, and ambivalence towards being labeled with a disability, also included indication for hesitance, rigidity, and less adaptive patterns of disclosure and utilization of services. Different levels of integration of the disability in students' narratives were concordant with indication in the narratives of different levels of support for the psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness--particularly by significant adults at home and in high-school. These general psychological-motivational patterns manifested in the narratives as individual profiles that integrated the six themes into the unique narrative of each participant. The study ends with consideration of the implications of the findings to future research and possible ways by which university disability support services may promote effective utilization of services by students with disabilities.
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