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- Title
Perceptions of Interability Communication in an Interpersonal Relationship and the Reduction of Intergroup Prejudice.
- Authors
Byrd, Gabrielle A.; Zhang, Yan Bing
- Abstract
Guided by intergroup contact theory, this study examined participants' communication with their most frequent contact with an invisible physical disability and their attitudes and stereotypes toward people with disabilities. Results indicated that participants' perceptions of communication frequency and quality with the contact and the contact's disclosure about disability all had a significant indirect effect on attitudes and stereotypes through social support and intergroup anxiety sequentially. Contact quality had significant negative direct and indirect effects on endorsement of stereotypes and a significant positive indirect effect on attitudes. Protective disclosure had a significant positive indirect effect on cognitive attitudes through social support.
- Subjects
INTERPERSONAL communication; INTERPERSONAL relations; PREJUDICES; SOCIAL attitudes; CONTACT hypothesis (Sociology); ATTITUDES toward disabilities
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2020, Vol 84, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570314.2019.1636131