Download or read book A Study Examining Age and the Differences in Attitudes Towards People with Disabilities written by Laura Colaccino and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to develop an informative piece of literature that will enable people to understand how society views people with disabilities. This study examined the differences in attitudes towards people with disabilities between three chosen age groups (21-29, 40-49, 65-74). SUBJECTS: Five hundred and seventy six subjects between the ages of 21 and 74 were surveyed by Lou Harris and Associates Inc. 5 The people surveyed were Americans, excluding people from Alaska and Hawaii, people in religious and educational institutions, prisons, and hospitals. METHODS: The data that was used consisted of information that had already been collected through the Harris RADIUS5 database. For the purposes of this study, a new database was created by extracting six questions and the responses from the respective age groups. Six questions were chosen to represent societal attitudes towards people with disabilities. Three categories were chosen by the researchers to focus on three important aspects of everyday life: social life (social), employment (work), and schooling (education). ANALYSES: Data collected from the RADIUS5 database was analyzed using SPSS for windows 10.0 statistical software program. A chi-square test of independence was used by the researchers to examine statistical relationships between the responses of the six questions answered by the respondents in the three age groups. An alpha value of less than .05 was used for all statistical analyses. RESULTS: Five of the six questions were answered similarly by all three age groups. No significant difference existed between the responses for question (A7). Significant differences did exist for questions (B1), (B2), (C4), (C5), and (C6). Although significant differences were found for five of the six questions, these differences do not reflect the overall attitudes towards people with disabilities. The significance was found within one response of each question between the three age groups. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: We can conclude that the attitudes towards people with disabilities are similar between the three age groups, however, from the chi-square test of independence, a significant difference exists in the responses from each age group. This study was conducted to obtain a better understanding of societal attitudes towards people with disabilities. This study may prove to be instrumental to further understand the relationship between age and attitudes towards people with disabilities. This understanding will benefit physical therapists by allowing them to prepare their patients with disabilities regarding societies attitudes towards the issue of disability.
Download or read book Attitudes of Third year College Students Toward Individuals with Disabilities written by Joseph G. Esposito and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine differences in attitudes towards people with disabilities of third-year college students enrolled in health care majors and non-health care majors. BACKGROUND: A person's perception of a person with a disability may directly affect the quality of care that a person with a disability may receive. Language affects how people are perceived. Using person-first language can perpetuate positive attitudes towards individuals with disabilities. SUBJECTS: One hundred and eighty-nine third-year Springfield College students enrolled in a major served as subjects. Demographics such as age, sex, major, religion, and exposure to people with disabilities were obtained. METHODS: Surveys were distributed to third- year students. The survey contained pictures of 7 people with physical disabilities and a response sheet. Responses to each picture were limited to 2 sentences or less. A demographic questionnaire was also administered. ANALYSIS: A demographic profile of the subjects was obtained through descriptive statistics. The average age of the sample population was 20.45 years and consisted of 50.8% males and 49.2% females. Health care majors were accountable for 27.5% ofthe sample population while non-health care majors accounted for 72.5%. Level of exposure to people with disabilities of the sample population was 30.7% once or twice a week, 27% a few times a year, 24.3% three or more times a week, 13.2% twice a month, and 4.8% rarely, if ever. Answers to the survey were reviewed by two of the researchers using the Use of First Person Language Scale (UPFLS). A Mann-Whitney U test was used to determine any differences between health care majors and non-health care majors in respect to attitudes towards people with disabilities. A second Mann-Whitney U test was used to determine differences in UPFLS between genders. A Spearman-Rho test was used to evaluate correlation between exposure to people with disabilities and use of person-first language. RESULTS: There was no significant difference in UPFLS between students in health care and non-health care majors (Z score -1.855). Therefore, the authors fail to reject the null hypothesis, which stated that there is no difference in attitudes toward people with disabilities between students in health care and non-health care majors. A significant difference was found in UPFLS between females and males (Z score -2.225). No correlation was found between exposure to people with disabilities and UPFLS (r = 0.15). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: No significant difference in attitudes toward people with disabilities was found between third-year college students of health care and non-health care majors. Students at Springfield College in health care majors were found to have similar attitudes toward people with disabilities as students in non-health care majors. Female subjects had significantly more positive attitudes toward people with disabilities than males. Prior research studying contributing factors to attitudes toward people with disabilities have varying results in choice of major and gender. Research has also shown that the use of disabling language by health care workers can lead to decreased rehabilitation outcomes. Departments of health care majors at colleges and universities may prepare more sensitive, positive, and effective health care workers through the integration of education and exposure to person first language.
Download or read book The Differences in Attitudes Towards People with Disabilities Among Beginning and Ending Undergraduate Rehabilitation and Non rehabilitation Majors written by Lynne Heinrich and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Attitudes of Older Adults Toward Their Peers with Mental Disabilities written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Attitudes of Older Adults Toward Their Peers with Mental Disabilities written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attitudes of older adults without disabilities have been identified as a potential barrier for older adults with mental disabilities to integrate into community-based senior programs. The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of older adults toward their peers with mental disabilities and the demographic correlates associated with those attitudes. Two scales were utilized to measure the attitudes of older adults: Attitude Toward Disabled Persons Scale - Form O (modified) ATDP and Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). The Contact with Disabled Persons Scale - modified (CDP) was used to measure the amount of contact older adults had with people with mental disabilities. Demographic correlates were examined in relation to attitudes as measured by ATDP and/or the TRA scale and to amount of contact: gender, age, income, types of activities, attendance, urban/rural, disability, family member with a mental disability, amount of contact, labeling and behavioural characteristics. The attitudes of older adults appeared to be neutral (ATDP) to positive (TRA) toward their peers with mental disabilities. Results from the CDP indicated participants had a low level of contact with people with mental disabilities. Significant relationships were indicated between amount of contact and positive attitudes (TRA scale) and between rural, age (younger) and education and higher attitude scores (ATDP), as well as more contact. Participants with a family member with mental disabilities also reported having more contact. Results from this study provided some important information about the attitudes of older adults toward people with mental disabilities and the demographic correlates associated with those attitudes.
Download or read book A Psychometric Validaion of a Disability Attitude Implicit Association Test written by Steven R. Pruett and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disability and Aging Discrimination written by Richard L. Wiener and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two things are certain in the contemporary workplace: the aging of employees, and negative attitudes toward them - especially those with disabilities—by younger colleagues and supervisors. Yet related phenomena seem less clear: how do negative stereotypes contribute to discrimination on the job? And how are these stereotypes perceived in legal proceedings? Bringing theoretical organization to an often unfocused literature, Disability and Aging Discrimination offers research in these areas at the same level of rigor as research into racial and gender discrimination. The book applies Social Analytic Jurisprudence, a framework for testing legal assumptions regarding behavior, and identifies controversies and knowledge gaps in age-discrimination and disability law. Chapters provide historical background or present-day context for the prevalence of age and disability prejudices, and shed light on the psychosocial concepts that must be understood, in addition to medical considerations, to make improvements in legal standards and workplace policy. Among the topics covered: • Applying Social Analytic Jurisprudence to age and disability discrimination. • The psychological origins and social pervasiveness of ageism. • Growing older, working more: the boomer generation on the job. • Limitations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. • Disability and procedural fairness in the workplace. • Cross-cultural perspectives on stigma. The first volume of its kind, Disability and Aging Discrimination is essential reading for researchers, forensic and rehabilitation psychologists/psychiatrists, and those involved in the well-being of older and disabled workers.
Download or read book Attitudes Toward Disability in Self and Other written by Amy K. Bonnett and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negative attitudes towards people with disabilities persist in our society, limiting the inclusion of people with disabilities in a multitude of social roles. Despite existing research on the nature of these attitudes and interventions to improve them, people with disabilities continue to cite social barriers as some of their greatest challenges (Dunn & Burcaw, 2013). Past research has often focused solely on the attitudes of people without disabilities towards those with disabilities, and has failed to involve people that have personal experience with disability in the research process. The present research consisted of two studies that were conducted to examine attitudes toward disability on both a group and interpersonal level, as well as the related factors of participant disability, the demographic factors and disability factors that influence attitudes (contact, age, gender, and type of and visibility of disability), and the impact of disability identity on the attitudes of people with disabilities towards others with disabilities. In addition, the second study examined the effects of education and the social model of disability on attitudes toward people with disabilities. The findings of the first study provide support for the role played by contact in attitudes toward disability and the differential effects of communal and personal disability identity in determining the attitudes of people with disabilities towards others with disabilities. The findings of the second study provide support for the efficacy of an educational intervention that addresses disability from the social model to improve attitudes about disability.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children written by Olivia N. Saracho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children is the essential reference on research on early childhood education throughout the world. This singular resource provides a comprehensive overview of important contemporary issues as well as the information necessary to make informed judgments about these issues. The field has changed significantly since the publication of the second edition, and this third edition of the handbook takes care to address the entirety of vital new developments. A valuable tool for all those who work and study in the field of early childhood education, this volume addresses critical, cutting edge research on child development, curriculum, policy, and research and evaluation strategies. With a multitude of new and updated chapters, The Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children, 3rd Edition makes the expanding knowledge base related to early childhood education readily available and accessible.
Download or read book Sociological Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction in Rural Populations written by Semali, Ladislaus M. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, poverty affects millions of people’s lives each day. Children are hungry, many lack the means to receive an education, and many are needlessly ill. It is a common scene to see an impoverished town surrounded by trash and polluted air. There is a need to debunk the myths surrounding the impoverished and for strategies to be crafted to aid their situations. Sociological Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction in Rural Populations is an authored book that seeks to clarify the understanding of poverty reduction in a substantive way and demonstrate the ways that poverty is multifaceted and why studying poverty reduction matters. The 12 chapters in this volume contribute to existing and new areas of knowledge production in the field of development studies, poverty knowledge production, and gender issues in the contemporary African experience. The book utilizes unique examples drawn purposely from select African countries to define, highlight, raise awareness, and clarify the complexity of rural poverty. Covering topics such as indigenous knowledge, sustainable development, and child poverty, this book provides an indispensable resource for sociology students and professors, policymakers, social development officers, advocates for the impoverished, government officials, researchers, and academicians.
Download or read book Adolescent Health Background and the effectiveness of selected prevention and treatment services written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Psychology Forensic Psychology written by Irving B. Weiner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multidimensional Attitudes Towards Disability Among International Students at a Midwestern University in the United States written by Nahal Salimi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural differences in disability attitudes significantly impact perceptions of and interactions with persons with disabilities. This study explored the multidimensional disability attitudes of the international college student's towards persons with disabilities and their attitudes toward educational accommodations. The researcher also examined the relationship between these variables and the following demographic factors: sex, age, country of origin, religion, college major, and level of college study. The study is a cross-sectional survey design. The effective sample of the study was 211 enrolled undergraduate and graduate international students at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. These scales were used for data collection: (a) Multidimensional Attitudes Scale toward Persons with Disabilities (MAS), (b) General Attitudes toward College Educational Accommodation; (c) Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale; and (d) a demographic questionnaire. In this study, descriptive analyses and a multiple regression analysis computed to analyze all test measures and demographic variables. The results of this study provide information about the international student's general attitude towards disability as well as the extent in which demographic variables may shape attitudes. In the first hypothesis only contact with person with disability was a significant predictor of the attitudes F1, 174 = 22.324, p
Download or read book Human Development written by James Wilfrid Vander Zanden and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
