Image of “Self” and the social world in narratives of students with phisical disability

The issue mentioned in the title of the article devotes to a social world, whose immanent part are persons with a physical disability. The presented paper is a short report based on a wider research and reveals the picture of every day life of students with physical disability. The insight into narratives presented in the text directly indicates the qualitative model of a research in which individual experiences of people with motor disabilities have been explored, involving the assumption that social world remains in a mutual relationship with the structure of “Self”. The main factor, strongly affecting a social world of research participants, is a category of disability, emphasizing physical disability, which is immediately evident to “Self” and to surrounding community, resulting in attachment to stigma and its obvious dominant character. The valuable theoretical basis employed to analyse everyday life of students with physical disability was the concept of mirror reflections that provide the information individuals use to define their own sense of self. One’s self-concept is a mirror reflection of how one has been seen by the others in a society. According to the applied theory, student with a disability is located in the ecological centre.

The issue mentioned in the title of the article devotes to a social world, whose immanent part are persons with a physical disability. The presented paper is a short report based on a wider research and reveals the picture of every day life of students with physical disability. The insight into narratives presented in the text directly indicates the qualitative model of a research in which individual experiences of people with motor disabilities have been explored, involving the assumption that social world remains in a mutual relationship with the structure of “Self”. The main factor, strongly affecting a social world of research participants, is a category of disability, emphasizing physical disability, which is immediately evident to “Self” and to surrounding community, resulting in attachment to stigma and its obvious dominant character. The valuable theoretical basis employed to analyse everyday life of students with physical disability was the concept of mirror reflections that provide the information individuals use to define their own sense of self. One’s self-concept is a mirror reflection of how one has been seen by the others in a society. According to the applied theory, student with a disability is located in the ecological centre.