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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 (4^th class) from secondary medical schools and secondary nonmedical schools in Belgrade. The informing for this handicape category, cognitive, affective and connative components of the attitudes of adolescents toward physically handicapped and chronically ill persons, have been examed by mixed questionnaire.

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.