Attitudes of Czech primary school pupils towards people with intellectual disabilities: the role of experience and participant demographics

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03055698.2020.1746637" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03055698.2020.1746637</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2020.1746637" target="_blank" >10.1080/03055698.2020.1746637</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Attitudes of Czech primary school pupils towards people with intellectual disabilities: the role of experience and participant demographics

Original language description

This research study aimed to identify and analyse attitudes of Czech primary school pupils towards people with intellectual disabilities (ID). In total 2295 pupils aged 10 to 15 years participated in the study. The questionnaire based on the Likert scale design was utilised as the research tool. Its items were divided into four dimensions (interpersonal liking, social status and rights of people with ID, social integration, fear) using explorative factor analysis. The effect of pupils’ socio-demographic characteristics (gender, school year attended and their declared experience with ID person) was modelled using multiple regression analysis. Pupils’ attitudes towards ID were rather positive overall. Neutral/negative attitudes were found in the dimension called “social integration of people with ID”, or rather their integration into regular primary schools to join peers without disabilities. The “personal experience with person with ID” proved to be the most significant predictor of all outcomes and it affected pupils’ attitudes towards ID in the most positive way. Differences in pupils’ attitudes were determined in relation to the effect of gender and the school year attended. In relation to the research findings, the study limitations and recommendations for further research are discussed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Educational Studies

ISSN

0305-5698

e-ISSN

1465-3400

Volume of the periodical

48

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

185-204

UT code for WoS article

000557477300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85083586050