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Vilchinsky, Noa; Werner, Shirli; Findler, Liora – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2010
This study aims to investigate the effect of observer's gender and target's gender on attitudes toward people who use wheelchairs due to a physical disability. Four hundred four Jewish Israeli students without disabilities completed the "Multidimensional Attitudes Scale Toward Persons With Disabilities" (MAS). Initially, confirmatory…
Descriptors: Jews, Females, Physical Disabilities, Factor Analysis
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Teichman, Yona; Bar-Tal, Daniel; Abdolrazeq, Yasmina – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
This study examined the proposition derived from the integrative developmental contextual theory (IDCT) (Bar-Tal & Teichman, 2005; Teichman & Bar-Tal, in press) that contextual circumstances determining collective self esteem (i.e. conflict and social status), and developmental stage in which identity development is a central issue (pre-…
Descriptors: Jews, Student Attitudes, Self Esteem, Conflict
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Lifshitz, Hefziba; Nissim, Shoshanna; Cohen, Sara – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2008
Attitudes of teachers (N = 96) and paraprofessionals (N = 48) working with students with intellectual disability (ID) towards the new definition of ID (Luckasson et al., 1992, 2002), was examined. The main innovation of the new definition of ID is the cancellation of the four ID levels, suggesting an optimistic view, especially towards individuals…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Mental Retardation, Teacher Attitudes, Special Education