Hi Soufiane,
The AIS was originally developed by Felton and Revenson (1984) by taking 8 items from Linkowski's (1971) original scale to measure acceptance of disability. I have also not been able to find it, but there are many other options for you to chose. Here are some examples, that you can look into:
- The Illness Cognition Questionnaire developed by Evers, Kraaimat, Lankveld, Jongen, Jacobs, and Bijlsma (2001) has an acceptance sub scale with 6 items.
- The Coping Orientations to Problems Experienced developed by Carver, Scheier, and Weintraub (1989) includes an acceptance sub scale with 4 items.
- The Multidimensional Acceptance of Loss Scale developed by Ferrin, Chan, Chronister, and Chiu (2011). This is rather lengthy but it is based on Wright's (1983) four value-change processes that makes up the acceptance of disability construct.
- The Spinal Cord Lesion-related Coping Strategies Questionnaire developed by Elfström, Rydén, Kreuter, Persson, and Sullivan (2002). This scales view acceptance as a coping strategy leading to disability acceptance. It has 4 items that measure acceptance. The items reference spinal cord injury, so it might be too injury-specific for your study.
If you want to look into scales coming from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy perspective, you can look into the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (Bond, Hayes, Baer, Carpenter, Guenole, Orcutt, and Zettle, 2011).
The items for all these scales are available in their respective papers, so they are pretty easy to find.
I hope this helps you out.
Anders Aaby
Anders Orup Aaby i thank you very much Dr.Anders , your answer is helpfull , good luck to you .
Hi. I want to use the Acceptance of illness scale in Iranian community.I've read many articles that no one mentioned they've got permission from Felton and Revenson. Now, I dont know is it free to use and translation? dose anyone know about this issue? Please let me know
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