TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender and attitudes toward people using wheelchairs: A multidimensional approach
T2 - A multidimensional perspective
AU - Vilchinsky, N.
AU - Werner, S.
AU - Findler, L.
PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - 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 Multi-dimensional Attitudes Scale Toward Persons With Disabilities (MAS). Initially, confirmatory factor analysis was used to revalidate the MAS. Five factors of attitudes were confirmed: distancing behaviors, positive cognitions, negative emotions, interper-sonal stress, and calm. Findings showed that an encounter with a person using a wheelchair raised more positive cognitions and less distancing behaviors, but also evoked more negative emotions, than an encounter with a person without a disability. In the case of an encounter with a person without a disability, men contributed to greater interpersonal stress among women, whereas women contributed to greater interpersonal stress among men. The multidimensional approach revealed that the effect of gender was mostly salient with regard to interpersonal stress.
Gender and Attitudes Toward People Using Wheelchairs: A Multidimensional Perspective (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232275293_Gender_and_Attitudes_Toward_People_Using_Wheelchairs_A_Multidimensional_Perspective [accessed Dec 9, 2015].
AB - 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 Multi-dimensional Attitudes Scale Toward Persons With Disabilities (MAS). Initially, confirmatory factor analysis was used to revalidate the MAS. Five factors of attitudes were confirmed: distancing behaviors, positive cognitions, negative emotions, interper-sonal stress, and calm. Findings showed that an encounter with a person using a wheelchair raised more positive cognitions and less distancing behaviors, but also evoked more negative emotions, than an encounter with a person without a disability. In the case of an encounter with a person without a disability, men contributed to greater interpersonal stress among women, whereas women contributed to greater interpersonal stress among men. The multidimensional approach revealed that the effect of gender was mostly salient with regard to interpersonal stress.
Gender and Attitudes Toward People Using Wheelchairs: A Multidimensional Perspective (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232275293_Gender_and_Attitudes_Toward_People_Using_Wheelchairs_A_Multidimensional_Perspective [accessed Dec 9, 2015].
KW - Attitudes
KW - Disability
KW - Gender
KW - Wheelchair users
UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232275293_Gender_and_Attitudes_Toward_People_Using_Wheelchairs_A_Multidimensional_Perspective
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77949890870&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0034355209361207
DO - 10.1177/0034355209361207
M3 - Article
SN - 0034-3552
VL - 53
SP - 163
EP - 174
JO - Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin
JF - Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin
IS - 3
ER -