An observational study on sport-induced modulation of negative attitude towards disability

The present study investigates whether sport activities involving children with a disability can reduce negative attitudes towards disability in children without disability. We compared the effect of being schoolmate or member of the same football team whereby a child with disability was member of t...

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Published in:PloS one 2017-11, Vol.12 (11), p.e0187043-e0187043
Main Authors: Ottoboni, Giovanni, Milani, Melissa, Setti, Annalisa, Ceciliani, Andrea, Chattat, Rabih, Tessari, Alessia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Anxiety
Athletes with disabilities
Attitude
Attitudes
Behavior
Biology and Life Sciences
Child
Child development
Children
Children with disabilities
Collaboration
Computer and Information Sciences
Debates
Demographic aspects
Developmental disabilities
Disabilities
Disability
Disabled children
Disabled Persons - psychology
Endorsements
Female
Football
Health psychology
Humans
Italy
Male
Medicine and Health Sciences
Observational studies
People and Places
Positive thinking (Psychology)
Prejudice
Psychological aspects
Self esteem
Soccer
Social Sciences
Society
Teenagers
Theory
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Summary:The present study investigates whether sport activities involving children with a disability can reduce negative attitudes towards disability in children without disability. We compared the effect of being schoolmate or member of the same football team whereby a child with disability was member of the class/team or not. This lead to four groups that were assessed both at the beginning and at the end of the school year. Two measures were collected: an ad-hoc questionnaire and an Implicit Association Test. The two assessments were designed to measure explicit and implicit attitudes towards children with disabilities. Results suggested that sport activities over one school year reduced more (p < .001) the implicit negative attitude towards disability (Mean = -.17, sd = .10) than the contact with the classmate in the school context (Mean = -.03, sd = .14), possibly due to their team building characteristic.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0187043