@phdthesis{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00009807, author = {山田, 純栄 and YAMADA, SUMIE and 鈴木, 國文 and SUZUKI, KUNIFUMI}, month = {Mar}, note = {Rogers et al. invented the Empowerment Scale, and conducted a factor analysis, which revealed five factors: self-esteem, power, activism, righteous anger and optimism. Hata et al. translated this scale into Japanese and named it Empowerment Scale-J. They found that the score of the righteous anger factor does not have a significant correlation with the overall score of the Empowerment Score-J. With the aim of clarifying the characteristics of the Empowerment Scale-J, in this study we assessed the levels of empowerment in seventy-two Japanese patients with chronic schizophrenia using the scale, and examined the relation between the results of the scale and the results of the following two batteries: SASⅡ (a scale for the degree of social adjustment), EASQ (a questionnaire to assess some aspects of attitude toward negative circumstances). The four results were obtained as follows. 1) We found no significant correlation between the score of righteous anger factor and overall score as to correlation between each of five factors and overall score of Empowerment Scale-J.2) No significant correlation was found between the Empowerment Scale-J score and the degree of social adjustment. 3) Significant correlations were found between some subscales of Empowerment Scale-J and the degree of social adjustments; self-esteem and optimism, but inverse correlations were obtained between the power factor as well as the righteous anger factor and the degree of social adjustment. 4) The results of EASQ revealed that the subject with a higher righteous anger score shows a tendency quite opposite to that of one with higher social adjustment. On the basis of these results, we suggest that the behavior related to the righteous anger among Japanese persons with schizophrenia may have some negative influence on their social adaptation and that in applying Empowerment scale-J we should pay due attention to the significance of the righteous anger factor of the scale., 名古屋大学博士学位論文 学位の種類:博士(リハビリテーション療法学) (課程) 学位授与年月日:平成20年3月25日}, school = {名古屋大学, NAGOYA University}, title = {Application of Empowerment Scale to patients with schizophrenia: A Japanese experience}, year = {2008} }