| Sumario: | The purposes of this study were three fold. First, it examined value differences between Americans and Chinese people with spinal cord injuries (SCI). Second, it assessed the impact of culture and gender on life satisfaction. Third, it explored patterns of correlates of life satisfaction in the two groups. The results indicated that Americans and Chinese people with SCI differed significantly in the values of family integrity and separation from ingroups. Although Americans were more satisfied with their lives than the Chinese, culture-related values did not appear to influence life satisfaction. Also, gender was not consistently related to life satisfaction in the two groups. In addition, Americans differed from the Chinese in the patterns of the correlates of life satisfaction. For the Americans, there were four variables (perceived health status, self-efficacy, self-reliance, and marital status) that significantly correlated with life satisfaction. However, for the Chinese, only self-efficacy and perceived health status were related to life satisfaction. Implications of these findings for rehabilitation practitioners and future studies are discussed. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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