Are workers with disability perceived as competent?

作者：Louvet Eva^*; Rohmer Odile

来源：Psychologie du Travail et des Organisations, 2010, 16(1): 47-62.

• Disability
• work
• judgment
• utility
• desirability

Building on recent research in the area of social judgment, this paper examines how persons with disability are evaluated in a professional context. In three studies, participants without disability had to rate persons with or without disability, with or without a job, on traits reflecting the fundamental dimensions of social judgment (social desirability and social utility). Our results showed that persons with disability were systematically judged more negatively on social utility, but more positively on social desirability than persons without disability. Focusing on social utility, persons with disability were perceived as less competent, but more courageous than persons without disability. These results are discussed with regard to chances of persons with disability to succeed in the workplace.

• 出版日期2010-3