Is Contact with People with Disabilities a Guarantee for Positive Implicit and Explicit Attitudes?

Autor/inn/en	Hein, Sascha; Grumm, Mandy; Fingerle, Michael
Titel	Is Contact with People with Disabilities a Guarantee for Positive Implicit and Explicit Attitudes?
Quelle	In: European Journal of Special Needs Education, 26 (2011) 4, S.509-522 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-6257
DOI	10.1080/08856257.2011.597192
Schlagwörter	Attitudes toward Disabilities; Undergraduate Students; Association Measures; Negative Attitudes; Measurement Techniques; Behavior; Interpersonal Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Negative Fixierung; Messtechnik; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	In the past 50 years research on attitudes toward people with disabilities has repeatedly revealed negative attitudes by predominantly using self-report measures. The main aim of the present contribution was to develop an Implicit Association Test (IAT) to assess implicit attitudes toward people with disabilities. For this purpose 47 university students majoring in special education (11 male, 36 female) were asked to complete the IAT in addition to self-reported explicit attitudes (affective, cognitive, and behavioural component). Moreover, the students were asked about the amount and perceived quality of their contact experience with people with disabilities. Results showed that participants reported on average most negative explicit attitudes in the affective, followed by the cognitive and the behavioural component. On average, students were more likely to associate the category "disabled" with the attribute "unpleasant" on the IAT. Overall, explicit and implicit attitudes were only weakly correlated. The amount of contact significantly predicted the three components of explicit attitudes, but not implicit attitudes. The results and limitations of this study will be discussed with respect to their implications for the educational context. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10