Abstract
The social participation of the disabled people is unsatisfactory and low, one of the reasons often overlooked but of great importance may lie in the disparate patterns of social interaction between the disabled people and the abled people. The current study respectively recruited 41 and 80 disabled people in two experiments and adopted give-some games and public good dilemma to explore social interaction patterns between the disabled abled people. The results were as follows: (1) the disabled people preferred to interact with the disabled people and the abled people preferred to interact with the abled people. (2) The disabled abled people had higher cooperation, satisfaction and sense of justice when interacting with the disabled people than interacting with the abled people. (3) Advantage in the number of the disabled people could reverse their disadvantage in the identity. These results are of important practical value, which provides related theoretical support for the disabled people’s federation and communities when carrying out activities for the disabled people.
Highlights
With the continuous improvement of social security for the disabled people, the objective conditions such as income and living conditions of the disabled people have improved remarkably while the quality of social life of the disabled people has not
A Chi-square test found that the disabled people preferred to interact with the disabled people [χ2(12) = 36.41, p = 0.052] and abled people preferred to interact with abled people [χ2(15) = 58.99, p < 0.01]
There was a significant difference of the main effect of interactive objects [F(1,77) = 6.65, p < 0.05, η2p = 0.08] indicating that there was a significant difference in the investment given during the interaction
Summary
With the continuous improvement of social security for the disabled people, the objective conditions such as income and living conditions of the disabled people have improved remarkably while the quality of social life of the disabled people has not. One of the reasons often overlooked but of great importance may lie in the disparate patterns of social interaction between the disabled and abled people. Because of their own and social reasons, the disabled people are at a disadvantage in their social status and resource distribution. They are in an unequal position in their interactions with abled people, which results in their low level of social participation
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