Psychosocial predictors of employment status among men living with spinal cord injury.
OBJECTIVE
To explore the relationship between employment status and community access, perceived community discrimination, social support from significant others, depressive symptoms, and gender-related variables for 83 men living with spinal cord injury.


METHODS
Correlational research.


METHODS
Internet-based investigation employing spinal cord injury listservs.


METHODS
Participant employment status.


RESULTS
A forced-entry hierarchical logistic regression indicated that means of injury, community access and perceived community discrimination, social support from significant others, depressive symptoms, and men's adherence to masculine norms for primacy of work, self-reliance, and emotional control significantly predicted employment status.


CONCLUSIONS
Psychosocial variables such as community access, perceived discrimination, social support from significant others, depressive symptoms, and gender identity represent important and understudied predictors of employment status among men living with spinal cord injury.
Burns
Shaun Michael
SM
Primary Care Behavioral Health Program, VA Boston Healthcare System, Harvard University Medical School, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA. shaun.burns@va.gov
Boyd
Briana L
BL
Hill
Justin
J
Hough
Sigmund
S
D000328:Adult; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011584:Psychology; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*