Adolescents' Attitudes towards Otherness: The Development of an Assessment Instrument

Autor/inn/en	Frizzarin, Anna; Demo, Heidrun; de Boer, Anke A.
Titel	Adolescents' Attitudes towards Otherness: The Development of an Assessment Instrument
Quelle	In: European Journal of Special Needs Education, 38 (2023) 1, S.141-150 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-6257
DOI	10.1080/08856257.2022.2037822
Schlagwörter	Adolescent Attitudes; Diversity; Peer Acceptance; Power Structure; Individual Differences; Peer Relationship; Measures (Individuals); Social Attitudes; Attitudes toward Disabilities; Secondary School Students; Foreign Countries; Inclusion; Bias; Personality Traits; Behavior Patterns; Interpersonal Competence; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individueller Unterschied; Peer-Beziehungen; Messdaten; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Sekundarschüler; Ausland; Inklusion; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Italien
Abstract	Former literature found that various 'different' students experience exclusion and rejection by their peers in schools. This may be linked with the attitudes that their school and classmates hold towards them. Identifying someone as 'Other' may indeed result in prejudicial attitudes which, in turn, can lead to his/her marginalisation and exclusion. From an inclusive perspective, it is thus pivotal to explore student attitudes towards the conceived different ones and how they are linked with exclusionary patterns among peers in schools. To contribute to the understanding of the link between peer attitudes, diversity and exclusion, the present paper reports on the stages of development of an instrument aimed to measure adolescents' attitudes towards otherness which combines a qualitative and a quantitative approach. Beside measuring their attitudes, the instrument also investigates students' representations and definitions of otherness. Such representations -- as emerged from the pilot study of the instrument -- will be presented here. The findings confirmed the importance of adopting a wider and non-categorical approach to otherness in the study of peer attitudes and exclusionary processes in schools. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01