Title
An Investigation of Tolerance for Ambiguity and Attitudes toward the Disabled under Conditions of Variated Stimulus and Situational Ambiguity
Date of Award
1972
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Counseling and Human Services
Advisor(s)
Lawrence Feinberg
Keywords
Disabled people, Attitudes
Subject Categories
Special Education and Teaching
Abstract
The study has a dual purpose over and above the immediate goal of accepting or rejecting the experimental hypothesis. First, is has been designed to organize and explain conflicting, incomplete and isolated reports in the areas of research focusing on "attitude toward disability" and "intolerance of ambiguity." It seeks to provide an empirical basis for a theoretical framework around which a logical, comprehensive and consistent theory of attitudes toward the disabled person may be built. By utilizing a research framework based on Helson's Adaptation Level Theory (Helson, 1956) it is possible to look at the total range of variables affecting attitudes toward the disabled person: the effects of the disability itself, the effects of the situation in which the interaction between disabled and non-disabled persons occurs, and the effect of the individual determinants which the non-disabled individual brings to the interaction.
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Recommended Citation
Galbreath, Judith Ann, "An Investigation of Tolerance for Ambiguity and Attitudes toward the Disabled under Conditions of Variated Stimulus and Situational Ambiguity" (1972). Counseling and Human Services - Dissertations. 50.
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