Predictors of Automatic Preference for People Without Disabilities Over People With Disabilities: A Chi-Squared Automatic Interaction Detector Analysis

Abstract

PurposeThe present study examined patterns of demographic characteristics that are predictive of people's automatic preference for people without disabilities over people with disabilities.MethodPredictions of automatic preference for people without disabilities were investigated among 41,789 individuals who volunteered to complete the Disability Implicit Association Test (D-IAT) at the Project Implicit website (https://implicit.harvard.edu/).ResultsResults indicate that men over 55 without a disability, who scored neutral or high on explicit preference for people without disabilities, who are religious and conservative, are likely to have higher automatic and explicit preference for people without disabilities.ConclusionsResults of the present study provide support for the use of implicit association measures to assess latent attitudes toward people with and without disabilities.