Predictors of attitudes about people with intellectual disabilities: empathy for a change towards inclusion (original) (raw)
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The study investigates the structural differences, under quantitative and qualitative aspect, between the attitudes toward children with intellectual disability and the teachers in the normal school and special school. The method used is the Attitude Inventory towards the intellectual disability (Mental Retardation Attitude Inventory -MRAI-R, revised, Antonak and Harth, 1994). This tool allows defining the attitudes of the subjects regarding the integration of persons / pupils with intellectual disability into the school and social environment. The importance of the research lies in the fact that, by knowing the attitudes of the teachers, it might, subsequently, contribute effectively to change them, so as to optimize the therapeutic intervention to students with intellectual disability.
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Attitudes towards disability in Higher Education
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In this article, we present data concerning the attitudes towards disability of students in Higher Education (HE) at a Spanish university. This research is part of a wider project designed to understand these attitudes at other Spanish universities and Brazilian and Portuguese Universities. The total sample was composed of 609 students (Mean age: 24.41; SD: 9.84), including undergraduates (85.7%) and postgraduates (14.3%) from different faculties at the University of Barcelona. Seventy-seven percent of the sample were women, and 6.1% had some disability. The first part of the instrument used collects sociodemographic information. The second part contains 43 statements grouped in three blocks: 17 relating to the biological model of disability, 15 to the social model, and 11 to the metaphysical perspective. The results showed the predominance of agreement with the social and biological conceptions of disability. Moreover, significant differences were found among the students' atti...
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Causal Analysis of Attitude Formation Towards Persons With Intellectual Disabilities
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The purpose of the present study was to cLarify causal relations among latent variables (constructs) obtained from implementing exploratory factor analysis and cluster analysis. We applied an analysis of covariance structure to the causal model of attitudes towards persons with intellectual disabilities. The participants, 415 university students, completed a survey composed of 28 items related to attitudes towards persons with intellectual disabilities, 12 items concerning relations with children (persons) with intellectual disabllities during the respondents' elementary and middle school years, 8 items concerning participants' attributes, and a free-answer question, Significant causal coeencients were obtained among the respective latent variables. The main results were as follows: Experience in integrated education during elementary school was not necessarily positively utilized in attitudes formation. Talking at home about children with intellectual disabilities had a positive influence on attitude formation. AMrmation of the abilities of persons with intellectual disabilities had more positive influence. Volunteer work and discussion related to persons with intellectual disabilities after middle school graduation were utilized positively in attitude formation.
Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Background: This study examines undergraduate students' attitudes towards people with intellectual disability (PWID) in relation to their frequency of contact with people with intellectual disability, the quality of this contact, and their knowledge of intellectual disability (ID). Method: The study sample comprised 1001 undergraduate students (458 male students [46 %]; 543 female students [54 %]; mean age = 20.6 years) from Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The Arabic version of the Mental Retardation Attitude Inventory-Revised (MRAI-R) was used to examine attitudes towards PWID. Results: Knowledge about ID, quality of contact with PWID, and gender were significant predictors of attitudes. Frequency of contact, as well as having relatives with a disability, were not significant predictors of attitudes. No differences were found between participants from the two countries. Conclusion: The results of the study indicate that high-quality contact is a major predictor of students' attitudes. Therefore, society needs to ensure more than just simple forms of contact between people with and without disabilities.
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The paper is covering a survey aimed to find out what is the publicity and the interest of society in people with disabilities, what is the public attitude of students towards this stigmatized group of people, are there any already formed stereotypes and positive stigmas of the people with disabilities, how to achieve their overall integration into society, i.e. starting from the family, through university and finally at work. We carried out surveys (questionnaires) among students from the Czech Republic and Republic of Bulgaria, as for this purpose we interviewed 100 students from both countries.This work reviews the concept of a relation between people with disabilities and the students, and the positive attitude of the latter for the purpose of integration into society. This survey uses several statistical methods. This fact increases its value and in great extent increases the possibilities of obtaining adequate and credible results. As a result of the survey, we determined th...