Ambivalent Attitudes Toward People With Disabilities: Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes About Their Competence and Warmth

• KURITA Tokika

  Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University

• KUSUMI Takashi

  Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 障害者に対する両面価値的態度の構造
• 障害者に対する両面価値的態度の構造 : 能力・人柄に関する潜在的―顕在的ステレオタイプ
• ショウガイシャ ニ タイスル リョウメン カチテキ タイド ノ コウゾウ : ノウリョク ・ ヒトガラ ニ カンスル センザイテキ ― ケンザイテキ ステレオタイプ
• ―能力・人柄に関する潜在的-顕在的ステレオタイプ―

Abstract

Many people's attitudes toward people with disabilities appear to be ambivalent, including both positive and negative valences. The present study demonstrates the structure of these ambivalent attitudes, using a stereotype content model and the implicit-explicit dimension. The implicit and explicit stereotypes about the competence and warmth of people with disabilities, as well as their implicit and explicit evaluation of people with disabilities were examined in undergraduate and graduate students (N=30). The results suggested that their ambivalent attitudes were based on stereotyped content and an implicit-explicit dimension of evaluation. Their ambivalent stereotype content relating to people with disabilities included a negative competence stereotype and a positive warmth stereotype, in both implicit and explicit dimensions. These results indicated that the stereotyped images of people with disabilities were strongly retained, regardless of the implicit-explicit dimension. Their ambivalent implicit-explicit dimension included a negative implicit evaluation and a neutral explicit evaluation. These results indicate that attention should be given to both the implicit and explicit dimensions of people's evaluations of those with disabilities. The present study contributes to the elucidation of a hidden attitudinal structure toward people with disabilities that people tend not to express in contemporary egalitarian society. Further research is needed in order to determine the effect of these ambivalent stereotypes and evaluations on the daily lives of people with disabilities.

Journal

• The Japanese Journal of Special Education

  The Japanese Journal of Special Education 49 (5), 481-492, 2012

  The Japanese Association of Special Education

Keywords

• stereotypes
• prejudice
• implicit attitudes
• stereotype content model
• attitudes toward people with disabilities

Details

• CRID: 1390282679629313664
• NII Article ID: 130003376448
• NII Book ID: AN00172513
• DOI: 10.6033/tokkyou.49.481
• ISSN: 21865132
• ISSN: 03873374
• NDL BIB ID: 023566939
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I023566939
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2012209663
• Text Lang: ja
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