Retardation and the burden of stigma
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Deviant Behavior
- Vol. 2 (4) , 371-390
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.1981.9967563
Abstract
An exploratory study of parents with mentally retarded children, plus previous research by others, suggests three hypotheses on problems of stigma that were systematically tested in mailed questionnaires returned by 319 mothers of seriously retarded children. Response to a series of statements were factor analyzed to form a scale of “stigma.”Keywords
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