Social Desirability and Attitudes Toward the Disabled

Feinberg, Lawrence B.

doi:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1967.tb03199.x

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“…Results are also inconsistent with previous research which has found that social desirability varies by gender and degree of stigma (Kleck et al, 1968;Wolfgang & Wolfgang, 1971). This interpretation is also consistent with research by Feinberg (1967), who found that the need of subjects to respond in a socially desirable manner had a biasing effect upon responses to attitude scales concerning individuals with a disability. Responses to the question concerned with what subjects felt had influenced their impressions indicated that subjects were aware of the stimuli's disability.…”

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Clothing Fashionability and Students with a Disability: Impressions of Social and Mental Competencies

Nisbett

Johnson

1992

Clothing and Textiles Research Journal

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The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of clothing fashionability and gender of a student with a disability, in combination with a perceiver's gender and affiliation with an individual with a disability, upon impressions of social and mental competencies of a student with a disability. Subjects were 183 undergraduates who each received a questionnaire and photograph depicting either a male or female wearing fashionable or unfashionable clothing while seated in a wheelchair. Subjects indicated their impressions of the stimulus by responding to a social desirability scale, a social competence scale, and a mental competence scale. Data were analyzed using analyses of variance and the Neuman-Keuls test. Results suggest that, for female students with a disability, wearing unfashionable clothing can be detrimental when others are forming impressions of mental competence. Results from subjects in this study did not support the notion that wearing fashionable clothing could lessen the salience of a disability.

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Clothing Fashionability and Students with a Disability: Impressions of Social and Mental Competencies

Nisbett

Johnson

1992

Clothing and Textiles Research Journal

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“…While there is a broad body of research regarding ATI predictors, context effects such as the tendency towards socially desirable responses (Feinberg 1967;Paulhus 2001Paulhus , 2007 to questionnaires and the related validity problems are rarely considered. Thus, the current research completely disregards an important predictor of ATI: social desirability.…”

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What do I think about inclusive education? It depends on who is asking. Experimental evidence for a social desirability bias in attitudes towards inclusion

Lüke

Grosche

2017

International Journal of Inclusive Education

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Recently, research has focused on attitudes towards inclusive education, and the majority of studies use questionnaires to measure this vital variable. In two consecutive experiments, we showed that attitudes towards inclusive education are not stable but instead are significantly influenced by social context. We manipulated information on the organisation conducting a survey regarding attitudes of participants towards inclusive education. The results show that the attitude of the organisation conducting the surveyas perceived by the participantoutperforms welldocumented variables (e.g. sex, age, and contact to a person with disability) in predicting the attitudes of the participant towards inclusion. This one variable explains as much variance as all other predictors combined. We argue that social desirability is a neglected issue in research on attitudes towards inclusive education. Our findings challenge the validity of numerous studies on this topic because they show a positive bias in the attitudes of participants when they were surveyed by a university. Thus, we outline the first steps to reduce social desirability-induced validity problems in research on attitudes towards inclusion. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…For example, "Students with LD or ADD who have high grade point averages (A or B averages) do not really need academic acco mmodations," was asked on the survey instead of "I believe students with LD or ADD who have high grade point averages (A or B averages) do not really need academic acco mmodations." This format was specifically chosen in an attempt to lessen the likelihood that some respondents might have sought to answer in a socially desirable manner, which could have influenced reported attitudes toward disability [28].…”

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Academic Accommodations: Perceptions, Knowledge and Awareness Among College Students without Disabilities

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Myers²,

Walmsley³

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EDU

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The growing number of students with disabilit ies on college campuses leads to an increase in academic accommodations provided to students. So what is the react ion of students without disabilit ies toward those students who receive accommodations? The purpose of this study was to investigate how students without disabilities perceive the accommodation use of students with learning disabilit ies and attention deficit disorder in the college academic environment. Based on data analysis of 928 web-based surveys (of the 1,295 surveys submitted), perceptions of students without disabilit ies were mostly neutral and/or positive; however, limits to what was tolerated within the process did exist. Reco mmendations are offered for campus practices.

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Social Desirability and Attitudes Toward the Disabled

Cited by 20 publications

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Clothing Fashionability and Students with a Disability: Impressions of Social and Mental Competencies

Clothing Fashionability and Students with a Disability: Impressions of Social and Mental Competencies

What do I think about inclusive education? It depends on who is asking. Experimental evidence for a social desirability bias in attitudes towards inclusion

Academic Accommodations: Perceptions, Knowledge and Awareness Among College Students without Disabilities

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