The social and cultural perspective about persons with disabilities has substantially modified the consideration of the disability personal identity (Finkelstein, 1980; Oliver, 1990; Shakespeare, 1996). It is here presented, in succession, both the reformulation of the construct onto the disability personal identity accordingly to the adoption of the social model and, in the second part, statistical results obtained from a research onto deep sexual identity in Italian subjects with mental disability, interpreted accordingly to the same perspective. Both the theoretical contribution and the experimental one here presented, belong in a wider project, in course of development at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. It aims at inquiring the environment (‘barriers’), cross-cultural, and educational influences exercised onto the deep sexual identity development, and the body imagery of subjects with different physical and mental abilities. In the first part of this study, we will show as the healthy development of the sexuality of persons with disability is often hindered from several environmental and cultural ‘barriers’ which surround the daily life of a disable. Consequently, in the second part, using a psychometric instrument (the FDCT: Olivetti Belardinelli, 1982, 1990), we intend to find the incidence of the aforesaid ‘barriers’ onto the construction of the deep sexual identity of people with mental disabilities in various contexts, familiar and social-educational communities, and, in various cultural insertion. The experimental subjects are 362 (147 women and 215 men) coming from the cities of Rome, Lecce, Catania and Formia. There was no evidence of influences on the type of out-patient or domiciliary assistance. The only meaningful difference was that one of the out-patient women onto the factor ‘Opening and dialogue’. Moreover, meaningful differences were found among the subjects with respect to the different cities where the surveys had been effected. These findings have been interpreted as evidences in favour of the social model.
L’identità personale nella disabilità: Le configurazioni dell’identità sessuale profonda in soggetti con disabilità mentale
FEDERICI, Stefano
2002
Abstract
The social and cultural perspective about persons with disabilities has substantially modified the consideration of the disability personal identity (Finkelstein, 1980; Oliver, 1990; Shakespeare, 1996). It is here presented, in succession, both the reformulation of the construct onto the disability personal identity accordingly to the adoption of the social model and, in the second part, statistical results obtained from a research onto deep sexual identity in Italian subjects with mental disability, interpreted accordingly to the same perspective. Both the theoretical contribution and the experimental one here presented, belong in a wider project, in course of development at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. It aims at inquiring the environment (‘barriers’), cross-cultural, and educational influences exercised onto the deep sexual identity development, and the body imagery of subjects with different physical and mental abilities. In the first part of this study, we will show as the healthy development of the sexuality of persons with disability is often hindered from several environmental and cultural ‘barriers’ which surround the daily life of a disable. Consequently, in the second part, using a psychometric instrument (the FDCT: Olivetti Belardinelli, 1982, 1990), we intend to find the incidence of the aforesaid ‘barriers’ onto the construction of the deep sexual identity of people with mental disabilities in various contexts, familiar and social-educational communities, and, in various cultural insertion. The experimental subjects are 362 (147 women and 215 men) coming from the cities of Rome, Lecce, Catania and Formia. There was no evidence of influences on the type of out-patient or domiciliary assistance. The only meaningful difference was that one of the out-patient women onto the factor ‘Opening and dialogue’. Moreover, meaningful differences were found among the subjects with respect to the different cities where the surveys had been effected. These findings have been interpreted as evidences in favour of the social model.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
