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- Title
Causal Attributions of Disabilities and the Choice of Rehabilitation Approach.
- Authors
Williams, Dorothy T.; Hershenson, David B.; Fabian, Ellen S.
- Abstract
In a sample of 125 college students, statistically significant relationships were found between three causal attributions of disabilities and the rehabilitation approach chosen. Attributions to fate, or predestination, correlated with choosing to get the person to accept the disability as one's lot in life; attributions to natural or medical causes correlated with choosing medical or retraining services; and attributions to societally imposed barriers correlated with choosing the removal of those barriers, rather than trying to change the individual with the disability. A fourth predicted relationship between attribution to personal responsibility and the denial of public funds for rehabilitation was not supported.
- Subjects
PEOPLE with disabilities; REHABILITATION; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2000, Vol 43, Issue 2, p106
- ISSN
0034-3552
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/003435520004300206