Hi,
Any advice on the most accepted scale to use in measuring attitudes toward
people who are blind or attitudes toward people with disabilities?
I am a graduate student in Health Communication at Emerson College in
Boston and the college has awarded me a Social Justice Leadership grant to
implement an experiment measuring the effects of media representations of
people who are blind on audience attitudes towards people who are blind.
I want to be sure I use the attitude measurement scale most widely
accepted by the Disability Studies community or interested social
scientists. I am aware of the Attitude Toward Disabled Persons Scale
(Yuker er al, 1960), the Attitudes to Blindness Scale (Cowen et al, 1958)
and the MID scale (Makas, 1985). I am completely new to this literature
though and I wonder if anyone has any guidance on the most commonly
accepted scale to date.
In measuring the effects of media in particular on attitudes toward people
with disabilities, does anyone have recommendations for suggested reading?
Many thanks,
Kelly George
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