ERIC Number: EJ1308018
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Aug
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
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Promoting Positive Attitudes toward Peers with Disabilities: The Role of Information and Imagined Contact
Journal of Educational Psychology, v113 n6 p1269-1279 Aug 2021
This prepost test experimental study examined the effectiveness of an intervention providing information about peers with sensory disability, intellectual disability, and behavioral difficulties (cognitive intervention), an intervention using imagined contact with peers with these disabilities (behavioral intervention), and an intervention combining information with imagined contact, against a no-intervention control condition. One hundred and forty-two typically developing children were randomly assigned to 1 of the 4 conditions. Measures of attitudes, stereotypes, and feelings toward and intentions to engage in contact with peers with sensory disability, intellectual disability, and behavioral difficulties were administered. Results revealed that the combined cognitive and behavioral intervention improved all outcome variables considered. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Student Attitudes, Intervention, Attitude Change, Stereotypes, Intention, Perceptual Impairments, Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries, Behavior Problems, Program Effectiveness, Familiarity
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Italy
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