Browsing by Author "Hare, Alexander Paul"

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    A study of the nature and determinants of non-disabled persons attitudes towards persons with physical disabilities and disabled persons attitudes towards their disabilities and self-acceptance as measured by the attitudes toward disabled persons scale
    (1975) Riese, Edward David; Hare, Alexander Paul
    The research objectives of this study were to test a number of hypothesized relationships between the dependent variables, that is, attitudes towards disabled persons and attitude intensity, and certain independent variables, that is, contact, disability, religiosity and demographic variables. While the dependent variables functioned as criterions, it was assumed that the independent variables functioned as correlates or predictors. A set of three research instruments - the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale, a Personal Questionnaire and a Personal Questionnaire re Handicapped Persons - was completed by each of 101 non-disabled persons and 53 disabled persons in Cape Town, South Africa.
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    Therapeutic milieu agent or substitute parent? : a study of the role of houseparents in children's homes in South Africa
    (1981) Wilter, Adele Spektor; Hare, Alexander Paul; Von Broembsen, Max
    The purpose of this study was to investigate day-to-day experiences in children's homes, through an examination mainly of their daily routines and leisure time activities. In order to achieve this goal, these experiences were assumed to be contained in the concept of a therapeutic milieu. Each respondents commitment to the creation of a therapeutic milieu was thus assessed by means of a range of questions which formed a Milieu Therapy Scale, and the consequences of such commitment for factors such as the size of the Home, incidences of bedwetting, frequency of visiting by friends and parents, the tasks performed by respondents, the use of corporal punishment, and the number of absconders, was then investigated.