Reducing Avoidance of Social Interaction with a Physically Disabled Person by Mentioning the Disability Following a Request for Aid1
作者:
Judson Mills,
Faye Z. Belgrave,
Kathy M. Boyer,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
(WILEY Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 14,
issue 1
页码: 1-11
ISSN:0021-9029
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1984.tb02216.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The effectiveness of strategies for reducing avoidance of social interaction with a physically disabled person was experimentally investigated. Female college students privately expressed their preference for social interaction before and after learning the other was a female in a wheelchair or nondisabled. The results provide evidence for the effectiveness of mentioning the disability following a request for aid related to the disability (the Request‐mention Strategy). Change in preference for social interaction was more positive when the disabled person employed the Request‐mention strategy than when she said nothing. Requesting aid without mentioning the disability was not found to be effective. A request for aid unrelated to the disability was clearly ineffective. The disabled person who said nothing was avoided, in comparison to when the same person was nondisabled. Favorability of impressions of the other, as measured by ratings of her characteristics, was not influenced by the experimental conditi
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