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  • Disability Studies
  • Social Psychology
  • Professional Ethics

Background:

  • Disability professionals wield significant power and influence over disabled individuals' lives.
  • They play a key role in shaping societal knowledge and institutional practices concerning disability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the explicit (conscious) and implicit (unconscious) disability attitudes held by disability professionals.
  • To explore the relationship between these explicit and implicit attitudes.
  • To identify sociodemographic factors associated with these attitudes.

Main Methods:

  • A quantitative study involving 417 disability professionals.
  • Utilized the Symbolic Ableism Scale (SAS) for explicit attitudes.
  • Employed the Disability Attitudes Implicit Association Test (DA-IAT) for implicit attitudes.
  • Statistical analyses included descriptive statistics, t-tests, and regression models.

Main Results:

  • A majority of professionals exhibited explicit (77.24%) and implicit (82.03%) preference for non-disabled individuals.
  • Symbolic ableism was the most common explicit attitude (37.8%).
  • Sociodemographic factors like race, political orientation, job type, disability status, and gender correlated with attitudes.

Conclusions:

  • Negative explicit and implicit biases among disability professionals perpetuate ableism.
  • Self-reflection and addressing internal biases are essential for professionals to effectively serve disabled people.
  • Failure to confront these attitudes results in a disservice to the disabled community.