Hayfaa Yousif Al-Kandari
Biographic Data
| ID | 6468481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hayfaa Yousif Al-Kandari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hayfaa Yousif |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Kandari |
| SIGNATURE | AL-KANDARI H Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kuwait University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-9309-3885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
High School Students' Contact with and Attitudes towards Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Kuwait
This study aims to investigate demographic variables, contact-related correlates, and attitudes towards persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) among Kuwaiti high school students (N = 700). The study focuses on variables that few studies have investigated and attempts to raise awareness among social workers to advocate for the inclusion of people with IDD and reform social policy that would improve the inclusion in society.…
Attitudes of Kuwaiti Young Adults toward Marriage and Divorce
This study investigates whether parental marital status affects young adults' attitudes toward marriage and divorce. There exists a vast amount of literature on the impact of divorce on young adults in Western cultures; however, no previous empirical studies have been conducted on the attitudes of young adults from intact and divorced families in the Gulf region or in Arab countries in the Middle East. The sample of the study consisted of 661 you…
Adapting Antonak and Harth's Mental Retardation Attitude Inventory for Kuwait's Culture
The purpose of this research was to adapt Antonak and Harth's (1994) Mental Retardation Attitudes Inventory for the Kuwaiti culture and to investigate its four-dimensional structure. The study also aimed at identifying a unidimensional subset of items besides examining the quality of the identified items and the overall inventory. The 34 -item adapted inventor y was administered to 56 4 college students. Item analysis indicated that 29 items have…
Effect of a Disability Course on Prospective Educators' Attitudes Toward Individuals with Mental Retardation
Prospective educators who completed a course about social work with disabilities were participants in a study that investigated whether attitudes toward individuals with mental retardation (MR) would be enhanced by the information provided in the course. The quasi-experimental design of the study involved a control group together with a pretest and a posttest, and several demographic and experiential variables. The study used a version of the Men…
High School Students' Contact with and Attitudes towards Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Kuwait
This study aims to investigate demographic variables, contact-related correlates, and attitudes towards persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) among Kuwaiti high school students (N = 700). The study focuses on variables that few studies have investigated and attempts to raise awareness among social workers to advocate for the inclusion of people with IDD and reform social policy that would improve the inclusion in society.…
Attitudes of Kuwaiti Young Adults toward Marriage and Divorce
This study investigates whether parental marital status affects young adults' attitudes toward marriage and divorce. There exists a vast amount of literature on the impact of divorce on young adults in Western cultures; however, no previous empirical studies have been conducted on the attitudes of young adults from intact and divorced families in the Gulf region or in Arab countries in the Middle East. The sample of the study consisted of 661 you…
Effect of a Disability Course on Prospective Educators' Attitudes Toward Individuals with Mental Retardation
Prospective educators who completed a course about social work with disabilities were participants in a study that investigated whether attitudes toward individuals with mental retardation (MR) would be enhanced by the information provided in the course. The quasi-experimental design of the study involved a control group together with a pretest and a posttest, and several demographic and experiential variables. The study used a version of the Men…
Effect of a Disability Course on Prospective Educators' Attitudes Toward Individuals with Mental Retardation
Prospective educators who completed a course about social work with disabilities were participants in a study that investigated whether attitudes toward individuals with mental retardation (MR) would be enhanced by the information provided in the course. The quasi-experimental design of the study involved a control group together with a pretest and a posttest, and several demographic and experiential variables. The study used a version of the Men…
Adapting Antonak and Harth's Mental Retardation Attitude Inventory for Kuwait's Culture
The purpose of this research was to adapt Antonak and Harth's (1994) Mental Retardation Attitudes Inventory for the Kuwaiti culture and to investigate its four-dimensional structure. The study also aimed at identifying a unidimensional subset of items besides examining the quality of the identified items and the overall inventory. The 34 -item adapted inventor y was administered to 56 4 college students. Item analysis indicated that 29 items have…
Attitudes of Kuwaiti Young Adults toward Marriage and Divorce
This study investigates whether parental marital status affects young adults' attitudes toward marriage and divorce. There exists a vast amount of literature on the impact of divorce on young adults in Western cultures; however, no previous empirical studies have been conducted on the attitudes of young adults from intact and divorced families in the Gulf region or in Arab countries in the Middle East. The sample of the study consisted of 661 you…
High School Students' Contact with and Attitudes towards Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Kuwait
This study aims to investigate demographic variables, contact-related correlates, and attitudes towards persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) among Kuwaiti high school students (N = 700). The study focuses on variables that few studies have investigated and attempts to raise awareness among social workers to advocate for the inclusion of people with IDD and reform social policy that would improve the inclusion in society.…
Psychology (4 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (3 works) · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Disability Education and Employment (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (1 works) · Demography (1 works)