FEATURES OF IDEA ABOUT PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN YOUTH WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF SOMATIC HEALTH

Abstract

The article outlines the peculiarities of the idea of youth with different levels of physical health about persons with disabilities. It is shown that the attitudes to persons with disabilities in groups of somatically healthy young people and persons with disabilities have the following differences: persons with disabilities show a positive attitude towards persons with disabilities, consider them confient, cheerful, open, but oriented towards the past, those who love more to think, than to do. Somatically healthy young people believe that people with disabilities are not very self-confient and not optimistic, but quite open and sociable. Both groups feel somewhat alarmed about people with disabilities and believe that these people need support and assistance. The most pronounced types of attitudes of the youth being studied to persons with disabilities are “cooperation” and “feelings of guilt”, further - “pity”, the latter “ being rejected”. Such characteristics are inherent in both groups. As for the difference: the least pronounced in the group of people with disabilities
is the focus on “rejection”, in the group of somatic healthy people - “irritation”. This attitude, on the one hand, reduces the tension with regard to persons with disabilities, and, on the other hand, does not promote the full cooperation of young people with different levels of somatic health. The personal qualities of the subjects are determined: young people consider themselves cheerful, confient and independent, but persons with disabilities have an orientation towards the past, anxiety, a tendency to meditations, and not to actions, and somatic-sounding people are more effective and impulsive. Persons with disabilities assess themselves more than other people with disabilities, somatically healthy young people are generally more valued by people with disabilities than themselves.