Effects of Pre-Service Preparation and Children's Facial Characteristics on Child Care Workers' Assessments of Handicapped and Nonhandicapped Children: Project Report for Student Funded Research, Bureau of Education for the Handicapped.

Autor/inn/en	Feeg, Veronica DeCarolis; Peters, Donald L.
Institution	Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Coll. of Human Development.
Titel	Effects of Pre-Service Preparation and Children's Facial Characteristics on Child Care Workers' Assessments of Handicapped and Nonhandicapped Children: Project Report for Student Funded Research, Bureau of Education for the Handicapped.
Quelle	(1979), (125 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Child Caregivers; Child Development Specialists; College Students; Expectation; Handicapped Children; Interpersonal Attraction; Nurses; Photographs; Physical Characteristics; Rating Scales; Special Education Teachers; Trainees + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Collegestudent; Expectancy; Erwartung; Interpersonale Anziehung; Photograph; Foto; Photo; Fotografie; Photographie; Körperliche Erscheinung; Rating-Skala; Special education; Teacher; Teachers; Sonderpädagoge; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Auszubildender; Weibliche Auszubildende
Abstract	The nature of the relationship between the handicapped child's stimulus characteristics and the expectation held for that child by child care professionals provided the focus of this study. One hundred and twenty subjects viewed photographic slides of 30 children with differing facial characteristics and estimated the capabilities of the photographed children. Subjects represented three types of child care preparation programs -- special education, nursing, and child development -- and a comparison group of non-child care students. Slides had been previously rated for the physical attractiveness of the photographed child, the presence of clinical manifestation of dysfunction, and the quality of the photographic reproduction. Subjects were randomly presented with slides classified as attractive/normal, unattractive/normal, attractive/abnormal, unattractive/abnormal, and pre- and post-operative slides of children with craniofacial anomalies. Information relating to the experience of self-reported personal characteristics of the subjects also was obtained. Analysis of the data revealed that the attractiveness of the child plays a significant role in the judgment of functional capabilities, made from photos, for all subject groups. Children with unattractive faces were consistently scored lower in functional capability than children with attractive faces. Judgments of subject groups were equivalent. Self-reported characteristics of the subjects were not significantly related to their ratings of children's appearance and intelligence. (Author/RH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01