Results of a survey conducted among students of Jasło schools.
The team implementing the social project titled “Take no questions, take a hug …” within the framework of the Exchange of GENIAL Ideas for Jaslo. “Take don’t ask, take a hug …” conducted a survey in January and February among the youth of Jaslo schools on their perception of people with disabilities. The results turned out to be so interesting that we decided to share them with the residents of Jasło.
The survey involved 79 students in grades VI and VIII of Elementary School No. 2, the Economic School Complex and the Second High School in Jasło. The results of the survey confirm that the majority of young Jaslo residents recognize the problems of people with disabilities, the respondents have contact with such people at school, on the street, in health care facilities, and 27% of respondents have to deal with a person with a disability in the family.
75% of young people show acceptance and empathy towards people with disabilities, the vast majority say they are ready to help in everyday life situations.
The survey results also show that as many as 1/4 of respondents feel uncertainty, discomfort, and a desire to withdraw when dealing with people with disabilities.
However, only half of the respondents express a willingness to defend a peer with a disability against teasing from peers, and only 25% of students would dance at a disco with a person in a wheelchair.
15% of young people admit that they do not react when people with disabilities are ridiculed by others, although they feel sympathy for them. Also, 15% of respondents do not know how to interact with a person with a disability.
Nearly all respondents express the view that people with disabilities can study, work, participate in entertainment and sports just like healthy people, and stress the need for comprehensive support for such people.
In the opinion of 65% of young Yaslanians, a hindrance in establishing contacts with people with disabilities is people’s little knowledge of the lives of these people and ignorance of how to behave towards them. As many as 48% of the students surveyed cite fear of the “otherness” of people with disabilities as a barrier to contact, while 24% point to people’s fear that their help will be rejected.
Students from Jasielsk schools further emphasized in the surveys the need to care about the well-being and friendly relations with people with disabilities (“support them, don’t push them away, talk to them”, “spend as much time with them as possible so they don’t feel isolated”, make them feel good in our company”, “make friends with them”, “treat them like normal people, behave normally”).
Tatiana, Daria, Artur, Sara, Zuzia, Karol
The GGP task is implemented within the framework of the project: “Jasło – City of Knowledge” carried out within the framework of the project financed by the EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 and the state budget titled “Jasło – my city, my home”.
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