Division of Medical Law, Department of Social Medicine, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland.
Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw, Poland.
Ann Agric Environ Med. 2020 Dec 22;27(4):613-620. doi: 10.26444/aaem/114531. Epub 2020 Feb 10.
The aim of this study was to create a Polish adaptation of the Multidimensional Attitudes Scale toward Persons with Disabilities (MAS) by performing a statistical psychometric analysis in a sample of Polish students.
The study included 540 person (82.0% of students and 18.0% of workers), whose attitudes towards the disabled were measured with the Polish version of the MAS (MAS-PL). Mean age of respondents was 24.72 years (SD = 5.7), with a significant majority of women (n = 455, 84.3%). Data was collected during university classes and via an online survey.
Factor analysis yielded a three-factor structure of the MAS-PL, including affective, cognitive, and behavioural domains, which explained almost 45% of the total variance. Further factor-based solutions increased this percentage only slightly (0.8).
The Polish version of the MAS scale (MAS-PL) has been developed and presented as a reliable instrument for studying the attitudes of Poles towards people with disabilities. The scale can be used as a preliminary assessment tool when creating educational programmes, including those for training and social Policy, as well as assessing the effectiveness of programmes. Studies with the use of the MAS-PL will allow comparisons of research findings conducted with the use of MAS scales in other English-speaking (original/English MAS) or Spanish-speaking (Spanish MAS) populations and German (G-MAS), Korean (MAS-K), Serbian (Serbian MAS), Turkish (Turkish MAS) and French populations (French MAS autism).
本研究旨在通过对波兰学生样本进行统计心理测量分析，创建多维残疾态度量表（MAS）的波兰语适应版。
该研究包括 540 人（82.0%的学生和 18.0%的工作人员），他们的残疾态度通过波兰版 MAS（MAS-PL）进行测量。受访者的平均年龄为 24.72 岁（SD=5.7），其中绝大多数为女性（n=455，占 84.3%）。数据是在大学课堂上和通过在线调查收集的。
因素分析得出 MAS-PL 的三因素结构，包括情感、认知和行为领域，解释了近 45%的总方差。基于因素的进一步解决方案仅略有增加（0.8）。
开发了波兰版 MAS 量表（MAS-PL），并作为研究波兰人对残疾人士态度的可靠工具。该量表可用作创建教育计划的初步评估工具，包括培训和社会政策计划，以及评估计划的效果。使用 MAS-PL 的研究将允许与使用 MAS 量表在其他英语（原始/英语 MAS）或西班牙语（西班牙语 MAS）人群以及德语（G-MAS）、韩语（MAS-K）、塞尔维亚语（塞尔维亚语 MAS）、土耳其语（土耳其语 MAS）和法语人群（法语 MAS 自闭症）进行的研究结果进行比较。
