Attitudes toward the sexuality of persons with physical versus psychiatric disabilities
| Autor: | Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon, Shlomo Kravetz, Noa Vilchinsky, Ifat Hertz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Human sexuality Attitude scale Developmental psychology Surveys and Questionnaires Reading (process) medicine Humans Disabled Persons Students Association (psychology) Psychiatry Normality media_common Mental Disorders Rehabilitation Sexual relationship Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Scale (social sciences) Female Semantic differential Psychology Attitude to Health Sexuality |
| Zdroj: | Rehabilitation Psychology. 59:236-241 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1544 0090-5550 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/a0035916 |
| Popis: | Objective Research has shown that attitudes toward different disabilities form a hierarchy, with observers exhibiting more positive attitudes toward persons with physical disabilities than toward persons with psychiatric disabilities. In addition, investigations of attitudes toward persons with a disability indicate that they are often perceived as asexual. The current study examined whether involvement of persons with either a physical or psychiatric disability in a sexual relationship moderates the relation between their type of disability and attitudes toward them. Method After reading one of six randomly assigned vignettes, university students (N = 195) filled out a semantic differential-based attitude scale (Katz & Shurka, 1977; Kravetz, Katz, & Albez, 1994). The six vignettes consisted of a male with a physical disability/with a psychiatric disability/without a disability, who was either involved/not involved in a sexual relationship. Results An interaction between type of disability and involvement in a sexual relationship was found for two subscales of the attitudes scale, occupation and intelligence. Involvement in a sexual relationship was found to generate more positive attitudes when the target person had a physical disability but more negative attitudes when he had a psychiatric disability. Conclusions Involvement in a sexual relationship seems to work in favor of persons with a physical disability because of the association of such a relationship with normality and adaptation. However, attributing such a relationship to persons with a psychiatric disability seems to be stigmatic. |
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