Article

Social support is an important factor in rehabilitation following acquired brain
injury (ABI). Research indicates that social identity makes social support
possible and that social identity is made possible by social support. In order to
further investigate the reciprocity between social identity and social support,
the present research applied the concepts of affiliative and "self-as-doer"
identities to an analysis of relationships between social identity, social
support, and emotional status amongst a cohort of 53 adult survivors of ABI
engaged in post-acute community neurorehabilitation. Path analysis was used to
test a hypothesised mediated model whereby affiliative identities have a
significant indirect relationship with emotional status via social support and
self-as-doer identification. Results support the hypothesised model. Evidence
supports an "upward spiral" between social identity and social support such that
affiliative identity makes social support possible and social support drives
self-as-doer identity. Our discussion emphasises the importance of identity
characteristics to social support, and to emotional status, for those living with
ABI.

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