Causal attribution and coping with classmates’ isolation and humiliation in young adults with mild intellectual disability

What is it about?

Are intellectually disabled Youths rationale or irrationale? The originality of the paper is focusing on subjective perspective in coping with social stressful situaltions of Young adults with Mild Intellectual Disability. Applied cognitive approaches emphasize each respondent’s subjective perspective in attempting to explain humiliating and isolating incidents from classmates; and the various coping strategies they personally considered effective in these situations. The present study contributes to the relatively small current literature available in this area. The results have revealed that a majority of attributions are of defensive character. However, it was found that the justifying attributions were significantly associated with prosocial coping and the accusing attributions were related to antisocial coping. Promoting positive and situational attributions to stressful interactions with classmates increases the likelihood of prosocial coping. The implications for supporting coping skills through attribution training, especially for young people with aggressive and passive behaviors, are discussed.

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