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- Title
Changing Attitudes Toward Disabilities Through Unified Sports.
- Authors
Sullivan, Emma; Glidden, Laraine Masters
- Abstract
A cognitive/affective/behavioral intervention was implemented to change attitudes of college students towards individuals with disabilities. College swim team members were randomly assigned to intervention (N = 16), and no-intervention control groups (N = 17), with intervention group students and 8 Special Olympics swimmers working together to pursue swimming-related goals in 4 sessions over a 6-week period. Results indicated that on a revision of the Symons, Fish, McGuigan, Fox, and Akl (2012) attitudes inventory, the intervention group participants displayed significant increases in positive attitudes from pre- to posttest, whereas the control group participants did not. Written participant comments corroborated this improvement. A key element in the improved attitudes was the increased comfort level experienced by the college swimmers in their interactions with the Special Olympics swimmers.
- Subjects
ATTITUDES toward physical disabilities; SOCIOLOGY of disability; PEOPLE with disabilities; SOCIOLOGY of sports; ATHLETIC clubs
- Publication
Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, 2014, Vol 52, Issue 5, p367
- ISSN
1934-9491
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1352/1934-9556-52.5.367