Attitudes of the citizens of the city of Sisak towards people with disabilities

Invaliditet predstavlja odnos osobe koja ima određena oštećenja i njene okoline. Upravo u tom odnosu veliku ulogu imaju stavovi te okoline. Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je ispitati stavove građana grada Siska prema osobama s invaliditetom, a ispitivale su se razlike u stavovima obzirom na dob, spol, status obrazovanja, veličinu mjesta stanovanja, bračni status ispitanika, procijenjeno znanje o osobama s invaliditetom te poznanstvo s osobom s invaliditetom. Korištena je metoda web anketiranja, a u istraživanju je sudjelovao 201 punoljetni sudionik. Rezultati ovog istraživanja pokazali su postojanje statistički značajne razlike u stavovima prema osobama s invaliditetom obzirom na dob ispitanika, gdje osobe u dobnim skupinama od 18 do 29 godina i od 56 do 65 godina izražavaju negativnije stavove. Unatoč brojnim istraživanjima koja tako pokazuju, nisu se pojavile razlike u stavovima prema osobama s invaliditetom obzirom na spol ispitanika, veličinu mjesta stanovanja ispitanika, kao ni obzirom na bračni status ispitanika. Osobe višeg stupnja obrazovanja iskazivale su pozitivnije stavove prema osobama s invaliditetom. Ispitanici koji svoje znanje o osobama s invaliditetom procjenjuju kao izrazito loše ili loše iskazivali su negativnije stavove prema osobama s invaliditetom, a jednako je bilo i kod ispitanika koji ne poznaju neku osobu s invaliditetom. U ovom istraživanju pokazalo se da među građanima grada Siska postoje negativni stavovi prema osobama s invaliditetom te da su njima podložnije određene skupine, što je u skladu s dijelom postojeće literature.Disability represents the relationship between a person who has certain impairments and his environment. It is in this relationship that the attitudes of that environment play a big role. The aim of this research was to examine the attitudes of the citizens of the city of Sisak towards persons with disabilities, and the differences in attitudes regarding age, gender, educational status, size of place of residence, marital status of respondents, estimated knowledge about persons with disabilities and acquaintance with a person with disabilities were examined. The web survey method was used, and 201 adult participants took part in the research. The results of this research showed the existence of a statistically significant difference in the attitudes towards people with disabilities with regard to the age of the respondents, where people in the age groups of 18 to 29 years and 56 to 65 years express more negative attitudes. Despite numerous studies, there were no differences in the attitudes towards people with disabilities with regard to the sex of the respondents, the size of the respondents' place of residence, as well as the marital status of the respondents. People with a higher level of education expressed more positive attitudes towards people with disabilities. Respondents who assess their knowledge of persons with disabilities as extremely poor or bad expressed more negative attitudes towards persons with disabilities, and the same was true of respondents who do not know a person with disabilities. This research showed that among the citizens of the city of Sisak there are negative attitudes towards people with disabilities and that certain groups are more susceptible to them, which is in line with part of the existing literature