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

Author(s)

Lúcia Pereira Leite ^[1] ; Cristina Broglia Feitosa de Lacerda ^[2]

Affiliation

^[1] Universidade Estadual Paulista. Departamento de Psicologia - Brasil

^[2] Universidade Federal de São Carlos. Departamento de Psicologia - Brasil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Psicologia USP; v. 29, n. 3, p. 432-441, 2018-12-00.

Abstract

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). (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/03811-2 - The concepts of disability in a public university: implications for social inclusion
• Grantee: Lúcia Pereira Leite
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants