2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A comprehensive study of educational assessment in a educational program for nondisabled college students to support peers with disabilities : Self-efficacy expectations' criterion
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15530616
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Special needs education
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
KAWAUCHI Kiyohiko University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Professor, 大学院・人間総合科学研究科, 教授 (50251004)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Keywords | nondisabled college students / students with disabilities / self-efficacy expectations / reluctance in interacting with peers with disabilities / interest in persons with disabilities / friendship / volunteer activities / helping behavior |
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| Research Abstract |
The 2003 study explored the influence of disabling conditions, interpersonal situations, and personal characteristics on self-efficacy expectations and attitudes regarding interactions with students with disabilities. Factor analyses of data obtained from 658 nondisabled college students yielded three common factors-Embarrassing Relationship, Self-Assertiveness, and Integrated Education-among four different disabling conditions. Analyses of relations between these common factors and personal characteristics suggested that all personal characteristics were related to Embarrassing Relationship, and that gender was related to Self-Assertiveness. No personal characteristic was related to Integrated Education.
The 2004 study classified contacts into five types-friendship, accidental helping, friendly helping, volunteer activities, and interest in persons with disabilities. Five hundred and sixty-nine nondisabled college students completed Friendship and Self-Assertiveness subscales regarding
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four disabling conditions-blindness, deafness, use of a wheelchair, and control. The results regarding blindness and deafness revealed that students who had disabled friends and an interest in persons with disabilities showed less reluctance in interacting with peers with disabilities (referred to hereafter as RELUCTANCE) on Friendship subscale, while students who gave accidental helping showed less RELUCTANCE on Self-Assertiveness subscale.
The 2005 study examined the effects of lectures on disability science on nondisabled students' RELUCTANCE. In the first and last classes of the year for two different majors, a total of 441 college nondisabled students completed above-mentioned two subscales. The results for Friendship subscale indicated that the students in the last class tended to be less RELUCTANT than those in the first class, with a significant difference between the two majors. With respect to Self-Assertiveness subscale, the students in the last class were less RELUCTANT than those in the first class, with no significant difference between the two majors regarding all disabling conditions. Lecture satisfaction was inversely proportional to RELUCTANCE only in deafness condition. Less
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