Abstract

GARCIA LARA, GERMÁN ALEJANDRO  and  HERNANDEZ ORTIZ, SOLEDAD. Attitudes towards disability in youths and adults of Chiapas. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2011, vol.10, n.3, pp.817-827. ISSN 1657-9267.

The study is realized in a population of 736 young men and adults of three Chiapas's localities, México and it has as aim analyze the attitudes that these present on the disability. There are applied the Scale of Valuation of Terms Associated with the Disability and the Scale of Attitudes towards the Persons by Disability, Form G. The results indicate that the variables: to have a relative with disability, a major education, the youngest, single or married being, to live in urban zone and, not to practice any religion, they indicate more positive attitudes towards these persons. One gives a more positive valuation to the terms with educational special needs, exceptional and sick, and more negative to subnormal, upset and delayed.

Keywords : disability; Psychologycal test; personality; quantitative research.

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