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Dragica
MACIC, Snezana NIKOLIC, Daniela ILIC, Tamara TOSIC
OPINIONS
OF HEALTHY ADOLESCENTS CONCERNING
THEIR HANDICAP CLASSMATES
In
this work is presented a part of the research project about the attitudes of
nonchandicapped adolescents toward physical handicapped and chronically ill
persons. The research sample was made of 689 pupils (4th class) from
secondary medical schools and secondary nonmedical schools in
The
results of this work show adolescents inadequate informing for physical
handicape. There are also, a negative direction concerning cognitive components
of the attitude, and mostly positive direction concerning affective component
(except they meet physical handicaped when dominate negative feelings).
Component is reflecting the positiv directions of attitude towards physical
handicapped persons in a short-time relations, and negative direction is case
of intensive and long-time relationships, like tenancy and marriage.
Key words: attitude, physical handicap, adolescent,
connative component, cognitive component and affective component.