APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Possibility in the Context of Disability: Investigating the Integration of Disability into Hoped-for and Feared Possible Selves
- Matthew Schaublin
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - Luke Hicks
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - Daniel Carpenter
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - Scarlett Pardue
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - Bailee Smith
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - Leslie Frazier
Florida International University - Jill Shelton
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Abstract
Of 343 participating individuals with disabilities, 32.4% lacked any disability-related themes in their possible selves (n = 111), 14.9% included them only in their hoped-for self (n = 51), 26.2% included them only in their feared self (n = 90), and 26.5% included them in both selves (n = 91).
Hope
