MACDONALD, Stephen J./DEACON, Lesley/NIXON, Jackie/[et al.]
Qualification Affiliation:
UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND (Sunderland, Royaume-Uni)
ISBN / ISSN:
ISSN 0968-7599
Année de publication:
2018
Date de publication:
01/08/2018
Résumé:
The aim of this article is to quantitatively explore the relationship between disability, emotional loneliness and social isolation. The data analysis presents a number of statistically significant findings which illustrate that disabled people (N = 250) were at increased risk of experiencing emotional loneliness and social isolation compared with the nondisabled group (N = 355). This study identifies a number of disabling barriers which result in this overrepresentation of disabled people. The study aims to move away from a pathological explanation of linking loneliness and social isolation to disability, in order to explain this occurrence from a barrier-based approach. [Résumé d'auteur]