title: [Environmental access to a rehabilitation center as a determinant of attitude to handicapped persons? A comparative empirical study of assumptions of the "contact hypothesis"].
abstract: A total of 263 respondents were interviewed relative to their attitudes towards disabled persons, using a standardized questionnaire. Of these 263 subjects, 144 lived in a community without any facility for disabled persons in the vicinity, 119 subjects lived close by a physically disabled persons centre. The "attitudinal climate" among all interviewees on the whole more on the positive side, it was found that those living in the vicinity of a physically disabled persons centre, though expressing less contact uneasiness when meeting physically handicapped children and young people, did however not give more positive--but neither more negative--opinions in other respects than those subjects not living near a facility for the disabled. The results obtained were further analyzed on the variables of age, sex, and closer contacts with disabled people among friends. It has, once again, been confirmed that attitudes toward disabled persons constitute a multidimensional construct that, to varying degrees, is influenced by a number of factors. Some consequences and considerations in terms of educational implementation possibilities of the findings are outlined in conclusion.
authors.affiliation: Lehrstuhl Sonderpädagogik, Universität Wäurzburg.
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authors.lastname: Fries
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001290:Attitude; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: Räumliche Nachbarschaft zu einem Behindertenzentrum als Determinante der Einstellungen gegenüber körperbehinderten Personen? Eine vergleichende empirische Studie zu Annahmen der "Kontakthypothese".