Attitudes of Undergraduate Students Toward Persons With Disabilities: Exploring Effects of Contact Experience on Social Distance Across Ten Disability Types

Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 53-63

  Huskin, Patricia R ^a   Reiser Robbins, Christine ^a   Kwon, Soyoung ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; contact theory; disabilities; social distance theory; undergraduate students

Indexed keywords

EID: 85053601018     PISSN: 00343552     EISSN: 15384853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0034355217727600     Document Type: Article

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