REACTIONS OF THE NONDISABLED TO PRESENTATIONS OF VARIOUS DISABILITY ATTITUDES BY A DISABLED STIMULUS PERSON.
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Title
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REACTIONS OF THE NONDISABLED TO PRESENTATIONS OF VARIOUS DISABILITY ATTITUDES BY A DISABLED STIMULUS PERSON.
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Identifier
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AAI8112751
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identifier
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8112751
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Creator
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BUCCHERI, GINO.
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Contributor
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Dr. Irwin Katz
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Date
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1981
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Social
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Abstract
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The main purpose of this experiment was to broaden the study of factors related to the occurrence of negative reactions by the nondisabled in situations of initial contact with a physically handicapped person. The principal factor of interest, which has received only scant attention thus far, was the disabled person's explicitly stated attitude towards his disability.;In small groups, subjects were exposed to one of four videotapes of an individual they believed they would soon be interviewing. The dependent variables consisted of an impression rating questionnaire, a mood adjective check list, a rating of how comfortable subjects expected they would feel about asking the interview questions of the stimulus person they had seen on the tape, and a decision by the subject about the context of the interview. Subjects were asked to indicate a preference for conducting the interview either face-to-face or through a telephone system.;In three of the tapes the stimulus person appeared to be confined to a wheelchair. Each tape was identical except for a portion at the very end in which the stimulus person talked about his disability in either a very self-pitying manner, a very open, acknowledging manner, or made no reference to his disability at all. The fourth tape was identical to the no reference tape except that the confederate was seated in a regular chair.;It was hypothesized that subjects exposed to the open acknowledgement tape, as compared with subjects exposed to the other disability tapes, would report less anxiety, anticipate feeling more comfortable about asking the interview questions, and would more often choose the face-to-face interview alternative.;While differences were in the expected direction for all the dependent variables the only statistically significant difference found was for the ratings of anticipated comfort. Subjects in the open acknowledgement condition anticipated feeling more comfortable about asking both disability related and disability unrelated questions than subjects in the self-pity condition. Failure to find supporting evidence for the other hypotheses is explained largely in terms of methodological problems in the design of the experiment.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
