PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present qualitative study was to explore how people living with spinal cord injury (SCI) conceptualize 2 factors believed to contribute to perceptions of injustice (i.e., severity/irreparability of loss and blame/sense of unfairness) and identify specific sources that contribute to these perceptions. Research Method/Design: To assess perceived injustice, the 12-item Injustice Experience Questionnaire (IEQ) was administered via telephone to individuals enrolled in the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center database who were 1 or 5 years postinjury. Participants then took part in individual, semistructured interviews exploring their experiences of perceived injustice following SCI. Four items from the IEQ formed the basis of the interviews. Two items representing each aforementioned factor of the IEQ were chosen. Qualitative data from 15 participants were subjected to content analysis to identify common themes. RESULTS In response to items related to blame/unfairness, participants spoke about who and/or what was responsible for their injury, and these sources fell into 2 categories: fate or circumstance and internalized blame. In response to items related to severity/irreparability of loss, the predominant themes that emerged were life with disability, lack of understanding by others, and focus on the positive. CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS The present study contributes a level of richness and depth to current conceptualizations of perceived injustice. Findings suggest that for individuals living with SCI, perceived injustice may be less related to fault and blame but instead more closely related to a lack of understanding of the injury. Further quantitative research is needed to elucidate these relationships. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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对脊髓损伤患者感知不公的定性探索。

目的/目的 本定性研究的目的是探讨脊髓损伤 (SCI) 患者如何概念化被认为导致不公正感的 2 个因素（即损失的严重性/不可弥补性和责备/不公平感），并确定促成这些看法的特定来源。研究方法/设计：为了评估感知到的不公正，通过电话向国家脊髓损伤统计中心数据库中登记的受伤后 1 年或 5 年的个人进行了 12 项不公正体验问卷 (IEQ)。然后，参与者参加了个人的、半结构化的访谈，探讨了他们在 SCI 后感知到的不公正的经历。IEQ 中的四个项目构成了访谈的基础。选择了代表 IEQ 的每个上述因素的两个项目。对来自 15 名参与者的定性数据进行内容分析，以确定共同的主题。结果 在回答与责备/不公平相关的项目时，参与者谈到谁和/或什么对他们的伤害负责，这些来源分为两类：命运或环境和内化的责备。针对与损失的严重性/不可弥补性相关的项目，出现的主要主题是残疾生活、他人缺乏理解和关注积极方面。结论/影响 本研究为当前感知不公正的概念提供了一定程度的丰富性和深度。研究结果表明，对于患有 SCI 的个体，感知到的不公正可能与过失和责备的关系不大，而与对伤害缺乏了解的关系更密切。需要进一步的定量研究来阐明这些关系。（PsycINFO 数据库记录 (c) 2019 APA，保留所有权利）。