@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10001658,
	  title     = {Characterization and Predictors of Community Integration of People with Psychiatric Problems: Comparisons with the General Population},
	  author    = {J. Cabral and  C. Barreto Carvalho and  C. da Motta and  M. Sousa},
	  country	= {},
	  institution	= {},
	  abstract     = {Community integration is a construct that an
increasing body of research has shown to have a significant impact
on the wellbeing and recovery of people with psychiatric problems.
However, there are few studies that explore which factors can be
associated and predict community integration. Moreover, community
integration has been mostly studied in minority groups, and current
literature on the definition and manifestation of community
integration in the general population is scarcer. Thus, the current
study aims to characterize community integration and explore
possible predictor variables in a sample of participants with
psychiatric problems (PP, N=183) and a sample of participants from
the general population (GP, N=211).
Results show that people with psychiatric problems present above
average values of community integration, but are significantly lower
than their healthy counterparts. It was also possible to observe that
community integration does not vary in terms of the sociodemographic
characteristics of both groups in this study. Correlation
and multiple regression showed that, among several variables that
literature present as relevant in the community integration process,
only three variables emerged as having the most explanatory value in
community integration of both groups: sense of community, basic
needs satisfaction and submission. These results also shown that
those variables have increased explanatory power in the PP sample,
which leads us to emphasize the need to address this issue in future
studies and increase the understanding of the factors that can be
involved in the promotion of community integration, in order to
devise more effective interventions in this field.},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences},
	  volume    = {9},
	  number    = {5},
	  year      = {2015},
	  pages     = {1748 - 1757},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10001658},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/101},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 101, 2015},
	}