Development of an Instrument to Measure the Motivation for Rehabilitation in the Disabled

Han, Hye Sook; Lim, Nan Young

Abstract

PURPOSE: to develop an instrument to assess the rehabilitation motivation and to test its reliability and validity. METHOD: The data was collected with in-depth interviews of nine participants that include adults with disabilities acquired after they reached 18 years' of age. The development of the preliminary items was based on the theory of self-determination proposed by Deci and Ryan (1985) and the results from the analysis of the data. After these, appropriate specialists clarified the validity of the contents of the preliminary items twice. A test to reliability and validity was conducted with 186 disabled. A principal axis factor analysis with oblimin rotation was performed on 29 items. RESULT: Finally 27 items were selected. The 5-factor solution emerged as the most appropriate model for the data. The different types of motivation for rehabilitation were identified as: task-oriented motivation, change- oriented motivation, obligatory motivation, external motivation, and amotivation. The alpha coefficient of internal consistency was .85.
CONCLUSION
The results of this study suggest that the instrument to measure motivation for the rehabilitation of the disabled may be a useful instrument with a high degree of reliability and validity.