Disability disadvantage: experimental evidence of hiring discrimination against wheelchair users

V Bjørnshagen, E Ugreninov - European Sociological Review, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Disability is associated with persistent labour market disadvantages. What is not clear is the
extent to which these disadvantages result from employers' discriminatory hiring decisions …

Social isolation and achievement of students with learning disabilities

T Bruefach, JR Reynolds - Social Science Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Students with learning disabilities (LDs) experience heightened levels of social isolation, but
researchers have not fully explored its various dimensions at school or determined which …

Best practices for weight at work research

G Lemmon, JM Jensen, G Kuljanin - Industrial and Organizational …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Popular and influential social commentators have called organizations complicit in
perpetuating weight-based bias and mistreatment. Although our field has advanced our …

Disability is not a burden: the relationship between early childhood disability and maternal health depends on family socioeconomic status

LE Bixby - Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Narratives rooted in ableism portray disabled children as burdens on their families. Prior
research highlights health disparities between mothers of disabled children and mothers of …

Physical disability at work: how functional limitation affects perceived discrimination and interpersonal relationships in the workplace

D Carr, EH Namkung - Journal of health and social behavior, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Adults with disability have significantly lower rates of labor force participation relative to
persons without disability, although it is unclear whether this disparity extends to subjective …

Disability, program access, empathy and burnout in US medical students: A national study

LM Meeks, K Pereira‐Lima, M Plegue… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The objective of this study is to investigate whether self‐disclosed disability and
self‐reported program access are associated with measures of empathy and burnout in a …

Ableism and contours of the attitudinal environment as identified by adults with long-term physical disabilities: a qualitative study

L Reber, JM Kreschmer, TG James, JD Junior… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Adults with physical disabilities experience a continuum of enabling and disabling attitudes
in the environment. This study identified where adults with physical disabilities experience …

Estimating disability prevalence and disability-related inequalities: Does the choice of measure matter?

A Amilon, KM Hansen, AA Kjær, T Steffensen - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Rationale Different measures for quantifying the percentage of people with a disability in
surveys result in diverging estimates of prevalence and disability-related inequalities. Thus …

The psychological consequences of disability over the life course: Assessing the mediating role of perceived interpersonal discrimination

EH Namkung, D Carr - Journal of health and social behavior, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We examine whether perceived interpersonal discrimination mediates the association
between disability and psychological well-being (depression, negative and positive affect) …

The study of ableism in population health: a critical review

KM Mannor, BL Needham - Frontiers in Public Health, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Over the past three decades, health equity has become a guiding framework for
documenting, explaining, and informing the promotion of population health. With these …