Construction and validation of the disability rights attitude scale: Assessing attitudes toward the americans with disabilities act (ADA)

Rehabilitation Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 203-218

  Hernandez, Brigida ^b   Keys, Christopher ^a   Balcazar, Fabricio ^b   Drum, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LAW; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0031766354     PISSN: 00905550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0090-5550.43.3.203     Document Type: Article

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