Research Database: Article Details
| Citation: | Lustig, D.C., & Strauser, D. R. (2007). Causal relationships between poverty and disability. Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 50 (4), 194-202. |
| Title: | Causal relationships between poverty and disability |
| Authors: | Lustig, D.C., & Strauser, D. R. |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Journal/Publication: | Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin |
| Publisher: | pro-ed |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/00343552070500040101 |
| Research summary: | https://projecte3.com/poverty-disability-model/ |
| Full text: | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00343552070500040101 |
| Peer-reviewed? | Yes |
| NIDILRR-funded? | Not reported |
Structured abstract:
| Background: | Research has provided an understanding of why disability may cause poverty; however, a better understanding is needed of why poverty may cause disability. |
| Purpose: | The authors present the Poverty Disability Model, which offers an explanation of how individuals’ experience of poverty may increase their likelihood of experiencing disability and chronic health problems. |
| Setting: | United States |
| Findings: | There are four groups of factors that increase the risk that poverty will cause disability and chronic health problems: 1) social role devaluation, 2) environmental risk factors, 3) negative group influences, and (4) weakened sense of coherence, defined as a global orientation that the world is incomprehensible, unmanageable, and unmeaningful. The authors suggest that poverty reduces individuals’ access to resources that affect their acquisition of a chronic health problem or disability. |
| Conclusions: | The Poverty Disability Model links poverty as a cause of disability and establishes a foundation for future research to examine causal connections between poverty and disability. |
| Populations served: |
Transition-age youth (14 - 24) Adjudicated adults and youth Consumers receiving federal financial assistance through TANF Culturally diverse populations (e.g., African Americans, Native Americans, and non-English speaking populations) High school dropouts / functionally illiterate persons Persons with multiple disabilities (e.g., deaf-blindness, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse) SSI and SSDI recipients Sub-minimum wage employees Youth in foster care |