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Objective : This paper presents an empirical study on the bias toward the disabled by the students studying occupational therapy, who will make an expert group to take care of them in
the future. It was investigated how much sense of distance the students had according to the
physical characteristics of the disabled.
Method : Total 128 students majoring in occupational therapy were asked to fill out a self-administered questionnaire.
The physical characteristics of the disabled and the sense of distance toward the disabled were measured as follows:
The visible physical characteristics of the disabled were restricted to the disorders of external
physical functions based on the Article 29 ‘Classification of the Disabled’ of the Disabled Welfare
Act. The functional characteristics of the disabled were measured by using the FIM (Functional
Independence Measure) method. Meanwhile, Westie (1952)’s inventory of the sense of distance
was adopted for the inventory for the sense of distance toward the disabled in the study.
Results : The subjects showed the biggest sense of distance toward the disabled in the order
of the disabled with encephalopathy, physical handicap, language disorder, visual disturbances
and acoustic disturbances. As for the functional characteristics, the sense of distance was the
greatest in the order of the completely dependent disabled, partially dependent disabled, and
completely independent disabled.
The average sense of the distance was compared in terms of the subjects’ school and year,
and the results revealed there were statistically significant differences in all the areas except for
the sense of distance toward the completely dependent disabled.
Conclusions : The sample needs to be expanded in number, and random sampling is required to secure diverse social and cultural backgrounds. In addition, the causality verification should
be done in order to understand the nature of sense of distance in a study on it according to the
physical characteristics of the disabled. Finally, an evaluation tool needs to be developed that
can be used to measure the sense of distance toward the disabled.
Ⅱ. 연구방법
1. 연구대상
2. 평가도구 및 측정
3. 분석방법
Ⅲ. 연구결과
1. 응답자의 인구사회학적 특성
2. 학교에 따른 거리감 결과
Ⅳ. 고찰 및 결론
