The purpose of this study was to find out the difference in the interaction behavior, involvement and attitude in inclusive physical education of non-disabilities who are very important for adaptation of disabled students to inclusive physical educati...
The purpose of this study was to find out the difference in the interaction behavior, involvement and attitude in inclusive physical education of non-disabilities who are very important for adaptation of disabled students to inclusive physical education. Also it was to find out the relationship among the interaction behavior, involvement and the attitude of non-disabilities in inclusive physical education.
The population of this study was non-disabilities who experienced the inclusive physical education with disabled students in Busan. Through purposeful sampling, 700 students without disabilities were asked for responding the survey. Among 700 data, 668 data were finally used for this study.
The questionnaire was put together with 5 questions of demographic factor, 20 questions of attitude in inclusive physical education, 5 questions of involvement in inclusive physical education and 9 questions of interaction behavior. The questions of non-disabilities attitude in inclusive physical education were revised and based on Oh(2001b) and the questions of involvement in inclusive physical education were revised and based on Lee(2004b, 2005c). And the questions of interaction behavior were revised and based on Kim(2000), Lee(2004b, 2005c), Lee and Nam(2004) and Ha(2000).
To analyze the data collected for this study, SPSS 11.0 was used for exploratory factor analysis, t-test and One-way ANOVA analysis. Also, Amos 4.01 was used for confirmatory factor analysis, multiple group factor analysis and structural equation model analysis. Conclusion of this study are as follows.
1) Difference in the attitude, involvement, interaction behavior
First, there were no difference in the attitude, involvement for inclusive physical education and the interaction behavior of non-disabilities according to gender. And the result showed that girls' interaction behavior with general disabled people was higher than boys'.
Second, there were no differences in the attitude, involvement for inclusive physical education and the interaction behavior of non-disabilities according to the experience period of inclusive physical education. And the result shows that as the period was longer, interaction behavior with general disabled people was higher.
Third, there were no differences in the attitude for inclusive physical education even they have any disabled relatives or family members and the result shows that the involvement in inclusive physical education, interaction behavior with disabled students and interaction behavior with general disabled people of non-disabilities who have a disabled relative of family member was higher.
Fourth, the attitude, involvement for inclusive physical education and interaction behavior with general disabled people of non-disabilities who had disabled friends were higher than non-disabilities who didn't have any disabled friends.
Fifth, the attitude, involvement for inclusive physical education and interaction behavior with general disabled people of non-disabilities who had ever experienced being a partner with disabled students were higher than non-disabilities who had never experienced being a partner with disabled students.
Sixth, the attitude, involvement for inclusive physical education and interaction behavior with general disabled people of non-disabilities who participate in physical education class with disabled students were higher than non-disabilities who distract the class and outcasts, or who behave individually in class.
2) The related effects on the attitude, involvement, interaction behavior
First, the attitude of non-disabilities for mental retarded students in Inclusive Physical Education showed positive effects on involvement in inclusive physical education.
Second, the attitude of non-disabilities for mental retarded students in inclusive physical education showed positive effects on interaction behavior with mental retarded students in inclusive physical education.
Third, the involvement of inclusive physical education showed positive effects on interaction behavior with mental retarded students in inclusive physical education.
Fourth, the involvement of inclusive physical education showed positive effects on interaction behavior with general disabled people.
Fifth, the interaction behavior with mental retarded students in inclusive physical education showed positive effects on interaction behavior with general disabled people.