Friedman Carli
The Council on Quality and Leadership, Towson, MD, United States.
Front Rehabil Sci. 2025 Apr 28;6:1576357. doi: 10.3389/fresc.2025.1576357. eCollection 2025.
Intersectionality recognizes and maps the ways oppressions interact and intersect for multiply marginalized people. This framework is a pushing back against the historical approach to discrimination that has taken a "single-axis" view of discrimination, focusing on one single type of oppression, even for people with multiple identities. Little attention has been drawn to intersectionality when it comes to disability, especially related to disability and race.
In recognition of the intersectional nature of ableism and racism, the aim of this study was to develop and validate the Symbolic Intersecting Ableism and Racism Scale (SIARS).
We piloted the SIARS with 512 people (July-October 2024) and conducted an exploratory factor analysis to examine the underlying structure of the SIARS.
The SIARS has adequate validity and reliability. Our findings suggest the SIARS is comprised of a complex combination of a denial of continuing discrimination, individualism, and empathy. The findings also indicated many points of contention with the single-axis symbolic ableism scale measure, which examines disability only, further reinforcing the need to measure and attend to intersectionality.
Without doing so, we will never truly be able to dismantle oppression and discrimination, including the ableism disabled people face.
交叉性理论认识到并描绘了多种压迫如何相互作用和交叉影响多重边缘化群体。这一框架是对历史上歧视研究方法的一种反驳，以往的方法采用“单轴”视角看待歧视，即使对于具有多种身份的人，也只关注单一类型的压迫。在残疾问题上，尤其是与残疾和种族相关的问题上，交叉性理论很少受到关注。
鉴于能力主义和种族主义的交叉性本质，本研究旨在开发并验证象征性交又能力主义和种族主义量表（SIARS）。
我们在512人身上对SIARS进行了预测试（2024年7月至10月），并进行探索性因素分析以检验SIARS的潜在结构。
SIARS具有足够的效度和信度。我们的研究结果表明，SIARS由对持续歧视的否认、个人主义和同理心的复杂组合构成。研究结果还表明，与仅考察残疾的单轴象征能力主义量表测量存在许多争议点,这进一步凸显了测量和关注交叉性的必要性。
不这样做，我们就永远无法真正消除压迫和歧视,包括残疾人所面临的能力主义。
