TY - JOUR AU - Savarese, Giulia PY - 2016/04/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Friendship and Disability: A study on representations of disabled and normotype classmates JF - Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies JA - AJHSS VL - 4 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ajouronline.com/index.php/AJHSS/article/view/3668 SP - AB - <p>Objective: understand between the representations of disabled and non-disabled children and pre-adolescents regarding friendship between disabled and normotype classmates.</p><p>Sample: 100 children and pre-adolescents aged from 6 to 12 years.</p><p>Tools and procedure: The drawing test of friendship designed by Bombi et al.  and the Moreno’s Sociogram Test.</p><p>Results: There are different ways to represent friendship between the disabled and normotype peers, depending on whether one possesses a disability or not.</p><p> </p><p>In fact, for the disabled students interviewed, the very fact of standing next to a classmate is a source of well-being; sharing activities, then, induces positive emotions. Normotype students, instead, seem to experience the relationship with a disabled companion in a rather emotionally distanced way.</p><p> </p><p> </p> ER -