Kelly, Amanda and Barnes-Holmes, Dermot (2013) Implicit attitudes towards children with autism versus normally developing children as predictors of professional burnout and psychopathology. Research in Development Disabilities, 34 (1). pp. 17-28. ISSN 0891-4222

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Abstract

Tutors trained in applied behaviour analysis (n = 16) and mainstream school teachers (n = 16) were exposed to an Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) designed to assess implicit attitudes towards individuals with autism versus normally developing individuals. Participants also completed a range of explicit measures, including measures of professional burnout and psychopathology. All participants produced more negative biases towards children with autism compared to children who were normally developing. Increased negativity towards autism on the IRAP predicted similar attitudes on some of the explicit measures and also correlated with increased levels of self-reported psychopathology and professional burnout for the tutors working with children with autism. Results suggest that implicit measures of attitudes may provide a marker for professional burnout.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Implicit; Autism; Attitudes; Burnout; Psychopathology;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology
Item ID:	5037
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2012.07.018
Depositing User:	Prof. Dermot Barnes-Holmes
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2014 15:35
Journal or Publication Title:	Research in Development Disabilities
Publisher:	Elsevier
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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