ERIC Number: EJ910815
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 21
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Mortality Salience and Positive Affect Influence Adolescents' Attitudes toward Peers with Physical Disabilities: Terror Management and Broaden and Build Theories
Taubman-Ben-Ari, Orit; Eherenfreund-Hager, Ahinoam; Findler, Liora
Death Studies, v35 n1 p1-21 2011
Attitudes toward teenagers with and without physical disabilities, and their social acceptance, were examined from the perspective of terror management theory and the broaden and build theory. Participants (n = 390, aged 13-17) were divided into 3 experimental conditions: positive emotions, mortality salience, and control. Then, they were shown either a picture depicting an adolescent sitting on a regular chair or in a wheelchair and were asked to assess the characteristics of the person in the picture and their willingness to be in his or her company. The findings suggest that both types of manipulations enhanced the personality assessment and social acceptance of adolescents with disabilities compared to adolescents without disabilities and compared to the control condition. Girls reported more favorable attitudes toward another adolescent than boys did. The study indicates that seemingly contradictory manipulations may lead to social acceptance of adolescents with disabilities. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Personality Assessment, Physical Disabilities, Assistive Technology, Peer Acceptance, Social Attitudes, Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Individual Characteristics, Gender Differences, Fear, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Affective Behavior, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel
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