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Direct linkÁlvaro Moraleda Ruano; Diana Ruiz Vicente; Joanne Mampaso Desbrow; Diego Galán-Casado – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: This study examines stigma and self-stigma towards individuals with intellectual disabilities among university students, focusing on cognitive, emotional and behavioural dimensions. It highlights the negative impact on social inclusion and the importance of educational interventions. Methods: A quantitative pre-/post-test design with a…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Self Concept, Intellectual Disability, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Elahdi, Ayman; Alnahdi, Ghaleb H. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Background: Persons with intellectual disabilities have the right to pursue and acquire gainful employment and thereby obtain the psychological, social and economic benefits derived from employment. Aims: This study aimed to examine workers' attitudes towards and perspectives with respect to the challenges of employing persons with intellectual…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Gender Differences, Work Attitudes
Elisa Vigna; Andrea Meek; Stephen Beyer – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: Paid employment represents a challenge for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism. This paper analyses the quality of jobs offered by the Engage to Change project and their relationship to the 'typicalness' of the employment offered. Method: Data on the quality of 384 paid jobs were collected, including hours worked and…
Descriptors: Supported Employment, Coaching (Performance), Work Environment, Gender Differences
Lunde, Hilde; Blaalid, Laila; Areskoug Josefsson, Kristina; Gerbild, Helle – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Background: Norwegian social educator students' attitudes towards addressing sexual health are unknown, even if their future clients often have needs related to sexual issues. Purpose: To investigate social educator students' readiness to address sexual health in their future profession. Methods: In 2019, 213 social educator students (response…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Sex Education, Health Education
Murch, Aidan J.; Choudhury, Tanveen; Wilson, Michelle; Collerton, Eleanor; Patel, Maya; Scior, Katrina – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
Background: Intellectual disability research has concentrated on self-reported explicit attitudes with little focus on implicit attitudes. Such attitudes are evaluations which occur with or without conscious awareness, respectively. This investigation examined participants' (N = 234) attitudes towards individuals with intellectual disabilities…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Gender Differences, Age Differences
Li, Chunxiao; Wang, Chee Keng John – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
Background: The aim of this study was to examine the effect of volunteering for Special Olympics Games (SOG) on the attitudes of volunteers towards inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities. Method: A repeated measures design with 3-week follow-up was used. There were 100 volunteers recruited for the study and 90 of them completed the…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Program Effectiveness, Mental Retardation
Grey, Jillian M.; Totsika, Vasiliki; Hastings, Richard P. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
Background: Providing long-term care to an adult relative with intellectual disability can impact negatively on caregivers' health and well-being. Methods: Data were collected via online and postal questionnaires on 110 family carers' physical and psychological health, family stress and perceived positive gains from caring. Psychological…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Intellectual Disability, Adults, Family Relationship
Young Children's Attitudes toward Peers with Intellectual Disabilities: Effect of the Type of School
Georgiadi, Maria; Kalyva, Efrosini; Kourkoutas, Elias; Tsakiris, Vlastaris – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2012
Background: This study explored typically developing children's attitudes towards peers with intellectual disabilities, with special reference to the type of school they attended. Materials and Methods: Two hundred and fifty-six Greek children aged 9-10 (135 in inclusive settings) completed a questionnaire and an adjective list by Gash ("European…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Down Syndrome, Foreign Countries, Mental Retardation
Kayfitz, Adam D.; Gragg, Marcia N.; Orr, R. Robert – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2010
Background: The present study examined the positive experiences of parents raising school-aged children with autism within the context of parenting stress. Materials and Methods: Participants included 23 mother/father pairs raising children with autism (ages 5 to 11 years, M = 7.39). Parents completed measures of parenting stress and positive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Autism, Child Rearing, Adults
Tehee, Erin; Honan, Rita; Hevey, David – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
Background: The study explores the experiences of parents of individuals with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs), and examines the influences of parent gender and child age on perceived stress, stress and coping, child-rearing involvement, support and information/education accessed. Methods and Materials: Questionnaires assessed general perceived…
Descriptors: Mothers, Autism, Access to Information, Coping
Dahl, Norm; Tervo, Raymond; Symons, Frank J. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
Background: Although treatment acceptability scales in intellectual and developmental disabilities research have been used in large- and small-scale applications, large-scale application has been limited to analogue (i.e. contrived) investigations. This study extended the application of treatment acceptability by assessing a large sample of care…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Cerebral Palsy
Crabtree, Sara Ashencaen – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
Background: This qualitative study discusses family care-giving of children with developmental disabilities in the United Arab Emirates. Findings were reviewed in terms of the influence of culture on gender norms governing parental behaviour and aspirations. Method: An ethnographic approach is used in which parent participants were interviewed…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Developmental Disabilities, Arabs
Townsend, Michael; Hassall, John – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
Background: Schools in New Zealand do not normally include students with intellectual disability in their sports programmes. This study examined regular students' attitudes towards the possible inclusion of students with an intellectual disability in an integrated sports programme within their school. Materials and Methods: A total of 170 school…
Descriptors: Athletics, Grade 6, Grade 12, Age Differences
