Applying the mixed-blessings model and labeling theory to stigma in inclusive education: An experimental study of student and trainee teachers’ perceptions of pupils with ADHD, DLD, and intellectual disability
Institutional and individual stigmatization represent major barriers that prevent children with disabilities from accessing education. It can be presumed that children with disabilities are labeled as such even in inclusive educational settings and that teachers’ attitudes toward inclusive education...
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| author | Alexander Röhm Michelle Grengel Michélle Möhring Johannes Zensen-Möhring Cosima Nellen Matthias R. Hastall |
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| description | Institutional and individual stigmatization represent major barriers that prevent children with disabilities from accessing education. It can be presumed that children with disabilities are labeled as such even in inclusive educational settings and that teachers’ attitudes toward inclusive education and children with disabilities play a crucial role in this context. Against this background, the present study aims to (a) apply and conceptualize the mixed-blessings model in the context of stigma-related reactions to children’s disability labels in inclusive education and (b) shed light on the causal attributions of teachers that underlie stigma-related attitudes toward children with various disabilities. A 3 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 online experiment examined the ways in which disability-specific causes and symptoms, the type of disability in question, the children’s sex, and efficacy cues regarding educational efforts affect future teachers’ attitudes toward and expectations of inclusive education as well as their social distance toward children with disabilities. The participants in this experiment were N = 605 German student and trainee teachers representing different types of teaching professions. A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) revealed that, in particular, the cause attributed to the disability, the depicted type of disability and the probability of learning success led to changes in attitudes. Respondents’ teaching self-efficacy and their status as students or trainees emerged as moderators of the effect of pupils’ type of disability. As a result, teacher education and training as well as communication regarding pupils with disabilities require a high degree of sensitivity to disability-specific and efficacy-related cues to prevent (accidental) professional or institutional stigmatization. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-760f8270cfd94c3c9ca958e5b1fd91f82022-12-22T04:37:11ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-10-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.910702910702Applying the mixed-blessings model and labeling theory to stigma in inclusive education: An experimental study of student and trainee teachers’ perceptions of pupils with ADHD, DLD, and intellectual disabilityAlexander Röhm0Michelle Grengel1Michélle Möhring2Johannes Zensen-Möhring3Cosima Nellen4Matthias R. Hastall5Qualitative Research Methods and Strategic Communication for Health, Inclusion, and Participation, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, GermanyQualitative Research Methods and Strategic Communication for Health, Inclusion, and Participation, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, GermanyQualitative Research Methods and Strategic Communication for Health, Inclusion, and Participation, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, GermanyIntellectual Disabilities in Rehabilitation and Education, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, GermanyQualitative Research Methods and Strategic Communication for Health, Inclusion, and Participation, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, GermanyQualitative Research Methods and Strategic Communication for Health, Inclusion, and Participation, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, GermanyInstitutional and individual stigmatization represent major barriers that prevent children with disabilities from accessing education. It can be presumed that children with disabilities are labeled as such even in inclusive educational settings and that teachers’ attitudes toward inclusive education and children with disabilities play a crucial role in this context. Against this background, the present study aims to (a) apply and conceptualize the mixed-blessings model in the context of stigma-related reactions to children’s disability labels in inclusive education and (b) shed light on the causal attributions of teachers that underlie stigma-related attitudes toward children with various disabilities. A 3 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 online experiment examined the ways in which disability-specific causes and symptoms, the type of disability in question, the children’s sex, and efficacy cues regarding educational efforts affect future teachers’ attitudes toward and expectations of inclusive education as well as their social distance toward children with disabilities. The participants in this experiment were N = 605 German student and trainee teachers representing different types of teaching professions. A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) revealed that, in particular, the cause attributed to the disability, the depicted type of disability and the probability of learning success led to changes in attitudes. Respondents’ teaching self-efficacy and their status as students or trainees emerged as moderators of the effect of pupils’ type of disability. As a result, teacher education and training as well as communication regarding pupils with disabilities require a high degree of sensitivity to disability-specific and efficacy-related cues to prevent (accidental) professional or institutional stigmatization.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.910702/fullstigmainclusive educationADHDDLDintellectual disabilityself-efficacy |
| spellingShingle | Alexander Röhm Michelle Grengel Michélle Möhring Johannes Zensen-Möhring Cosima Nellen Matthias R. Hastall Applying the mixed-blessings model and labeling theory to stigma in inclusive education: An experimental study of student and trainee teachers’ perceptions of pupils with ADHD, DLD, and intellectual disability Frontiers in Psychology stigma inclusive education ADHD DLD intellectual disability self-efficacy |
| title | Applying the mixed-blessings model and labeling theory to stigma in inclusive education: An experimental study of student and trainee teachers’ perceptions of pupils with ADHD, DLD, and intellectual disability |
| title_full | Applying the mixed-blessings model and labeling theory to stigma in inclusive education: An experimental study of student and trainee teachers’ perceptions of pupils with ADHD, DLD, and intellectual disability |
| title_fullStr | Applying the mixed-blessings model and labeling theory to stigma in inclusive education: An experimental study of student and trainee teachers’ perceptions of pupils with ADHD, DLD, and intellectual disability |
| title_full_unstemmed | Applying the mixed-blessings model and labeling theory to stigma in inclusive education: An experimental study of student and trainee teachers’ perceptions of pupils with ADHD, DLD, and intellectual disability |
| title_short | Applying the mixed-blessings model and labeling theory to stigma in inclusive education: An experimental study of student and trainee teachers’ perceptions of pupils with ADHD, DLD, and intellectual disability |
| title_sort | applying the mixed blessings model and labeling theory to stigma in inclusive education an experimental study of student and trainee teachers perceptions of pupils with adhd dld and intellectual disability |
| topic | stigma inclusive education ADHD DLD intellectual disability self-efficacy |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.910702/full |
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