Journal article
Enabling or Disabling? Students’ Attitudes Toward Persons With Disabilities
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, Vol.45(4), pp.311-316
1991
Abstract
Persons with disabilities are devalued by society. Occupational therapists may be contributing to this devaluation through their attitudes. This study focused on the attitudes of undergraduate students. From a sample of 223 occupational therapy students and 326 business students at an Australian university, it was found, with the use of the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale Form A (Yuker, Block, & Young, 1966), that the attitudes of freshman occupational therapy students did not differ significantly from those of their business-major peers. Furthermore, the occupational therapy students attitudes did not vary with the years of undergraduate education completed. However, those students who had had contact with persons with disabilities beyond the context of a caregiver care receiver relationship (i.e., those students who had assumed roles that emphasized valued attributes of the person with a disability) had significantly more positive attitudes than did those students without such contact. Educational curricula must address the issue of students attitudes and, in particular, the facilitation of valued social role contact with persons with disabilities.
Details
- Title
- Enabling or Disabling? Students’ Attitudes Toward Persons With Disabilities
- Authors
- Michael Lyons (Author) - University of Queensland
- Publication details
- American Journal of Occupational Therapy, Vol.45(4), pp.311-316
- Publisher
- American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.
- Date published
- 1991
- DOI
- 10.5014/ajot.45.4.311
- ISSN
- 0272-9490
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 1991 American Occupational Therapy Assocation Inc. Reproduced with permission of the publisher.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450165602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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