Departmental Papers (ASC)
Title
Social Ecology of Supervised Communal Facilities for Mentally Disabled Adults: I. Introduction
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
11-1980
Publication Source
American Journal of Mental Deficiency
Volume
85
Issue
3
Start Page
219
Last Page
228
Abstract
This is the first of a series of papers in which we describe social relationships among mentally disabled adults who worked in four sheltered workshops. In this paper, procedures for observing and interviewing clients and for interviewing staff members were described, and data on reliability and general levels of social behavior were reported. Reliability of social behavior was significant across time and situations. Social-choice estimates were not very consistent across staff, clients, and observations. Clients spent about 40 percent of their time in informal socializing, primarily in conversation. In future papers in the series, we analyze predictors of social behavior and social choice in detail
Recommended Citation
Berkson, G., & Romer, D. (1980). Social Ecology of Supervised Communal Facilities for Mentally Disabled Adults: I. Introduction. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 85 (3), 219-228. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/364
Date Posted: 11 July 2014
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
At the time of publication, author Daniel Romer was affiliated with the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle. Currently, he is the Research Director at the Institute for Adolescent Risk Communication at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania.