The construction of a scale on the conceptions of disability: methodological procedures

Leite, Lúcia Pereira; Lacerda, Cristina Broglia Feitosa de

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES • Psicol. USP 29 (3) • Sep-Dec 2018 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-65642018109 copy

The construction of a scale on the conceptions of disability: methodological procedures¹ 1 This text is derived from the actions developed in research funded by CNPq, process 158556/2012-7, and Fapesp, process 2014/03811-2.

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Abstract

This article is based on the precepts of historical-cultural psychology to analyze how disability is conceptualized and its implications. The study describes the development of a methodological procedure to identify conceptions of disability. After a review of national and international bibliography, four concepts were circumscribed: organic, psychosocial, historical-cultural and metaphysical. For each concept five assertions were defined and arranged at five ordinal points. The scale was evaluated by judges with theoretical-methodological familiarity on disabilities. It was calculated the index of agreement between original classification of utterances with marks, and the return and review of opposing classifications. Initial applications and resulting treatments allowed the conceiving of the Conceptions of Disability Scale (CDS).

Keywords:
disability; social inclusion; scale; concept; psychology.Contextualizing the concept of disability

CONCEPTIONS OF DISABILITY SCALE - CDS
Below are twenty statements, each followed by five alternatives that indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with its content. After reading, please indicate one of the alternatives that best expresses your degree of agreement or disagreement. The alternatives are: (a) Fully agree; (b) Partially agree; (c) Neither agree nor disagree; (d) Partially disagree; (e) Strongly disagree. For each statement, mark only one alternative. Thank you for your collaboration.
ITEM	ASSERTION	A	B	C	D	E
1	Disability is caused by a lack of proper educational guidance.
2	People with disabilities represent karma for events of other incarnations.
3	Disability is caused exclusively by biological, congenital and genetic factors that determine human development.
4	The treatment given to a person with a disability denies them full participation in different social contexts.
5	People who have someone disabled as a member of their family are paying for a mistake they made.
6	Disability can be interpreted as arising from biological and social causes.
7	The lack of environmental conditions generates organic disabilities that deserve treatment.
8	Disability is a biological difference that is predetermined by its degree of impairment.
9	People with disabilities are especially protected by God.
10	People with disabilities have some fault or organic limit that, in itself, leads to poor human development.
11	Disability is aggravated by the lack of economic resources available for human development.
12	In a given culture, disability is due to the other’s attitudes and expectations.
13	The person with a disability is an enlightened person.
14	Attitudinal and structural barriers aggravate the condition of disability.
15	A person with a disability is abnormal.
16	A person is considered less or more disabled depending on the context in which they are inserted.
17	Although disability is caused by different factors, it focuses on the person with functional limitations.
18	Disability is a pathology and can be explained by a fault in the person, justified by the presence of deviant elements from a biological or functional point of view.
19	A person with disabilities comes into the world to submit to divine trials and develop their spirituality.
20	The severity of the disability is defined according to society’s interpretation of it.

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The construction of a scale on the conceptions of disability: methodological procedures1 1 This text is derived from the actions developed in research funded by CNPq, process 158556/2012-7, and Fapesp, process 2014/03811-2.

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The construction of a scale on the conceptions of disability: methodological procedures¹ 1 This text is derived from the actions developed in research funded by CNPq, process 158556/2012-7, and Fapesp, process 2014/03811-2.