Nwuga V C
Int J Rehabil Res. 1981;4(1):17-22. doi: 10.1097/00004356-198103000-00003.
A study was conducted to explore the attitudes of disabled persons towards individuals of similar disablement and dissimilar disablement. The study also looked into the attitudes of normal persons towards persons with visible disability--paraplegics and those with disability which was not visible--emotionally disturbed. Twenty-five subjects were in the paraplegic group, 25 in the emotionally disturbed group with the same number in the 'normal' group. The instruments used to measure attitudes were the semantic differential scale and the social distance scale. The results showed that on the social distance scale the paraplegic group rated its own group more favourably (0.72) than it rated the emotionally disturbed (1.21). On this scale the emotionally disturbed group even rated itself less favourably (1.81) than it rated the paraplegic group (1.41). On the semantic differential scale the pattern was nearly similar. Disabled subjects taken as a whole showed expression of a more favourable attitude (P less than 0.05) towards themselves than did the normal group towards them. The paraplegic group was more willing to associate with its own group than the emotionally disturbed group was towards itself. The implications of these findings have been discussed.
一项研究旨在探究残疾人对自身残疾情况相同和不同的个体的态度。该研究还调查了正常人对有明显残疾的人（截瘫患者）以及对无明显残疾的人（情绪障碍者）的态度。截瘫组有25名受试者，情绪障碍组有25名受试者，“正常”组也有25名受试者。用于测量态度的工具是语义差异量表和社会距离量表。结果显示，在社会距离量表上，截瘫组对自身组的评价更为有利（0.72），高于对情绪障碍组的评价（1.21）。在该量表上，情绪障碍组对自身的评价甚至比对截瘫组的评价更不利（1.81），而截瘫组对情绪障碍组的评价为（1.41）。在语义差异量表上，情况几乎相似。总体而言，残疾受试者对自己的态度比正常组对他们的态度更为有利（P小于0.05）。截瘫组比情绪障碍组更愿意与自身组的人交往。文中已对这些研究结果的意义进行了讨论。
