Attitude Toward Disabled Persons
Autor: | Diane S. Bohlander |
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Rok vydání: | 1985 |
Předmět: |
South carolina
education Rehabilitation Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation General Medicine Regular classroom behavioral disciplines and activities Percentile rank Occupational Therapy Formal education Scale (social sciences) Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Mann–Whitney U test Raw score Null hypothesis Psychology Social psychology |
Zdroj: | Physical & Occupational Therapy In Pediatrics. 5:43-50 |
ISSN: | 1541-3144 0194-2638 |
Popis: | Thirty-one regular classroom teachers and thirty-one physical therapists from Greenville, South Carolina, were compared regarding their responses to a survey of their attitudes toward disabled persons. The instrument used was the Attitude Toward Disabled Persons Scale designed by Yuker, Block and Younng. Speakman and Kung used this instrument to establish norms for physical therapists. Against there norms, the teachers had a mean percentile score of 57.6. A rank order analysis with the Mann-Whitney U test demonstrated that the findings were significant at greater thatnt he .05 level to reject the null hypothesis of no difference in the attitudes of the tow groups. Threes demographic variables were also identified. The regular classroom teachers had not had as much contact with the disabled as had the therapist. The total years of formal education and professional experiences of the two groups were similar. The analysis of the raw scores for the correctness of the response by agreeing or disagreeing with t... |
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