Razvoj skala za ispitivanje stavova prema izdvajanju djece iz obitelji i udomiteljstvu
Development of attitude scales toward exclusion of children from the families and toward foster care placement

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe the development of the Attitude scale toward exclusion of children from the families (20 items) and Attitude scale toward foster care placement (22 items) developed by Ž. Kamenov, B. Sladović Franz and M. Ajduković (2005.) The scales have high coefficient of internal consistency, and the factor analyses identified factors that explain satisfactory percentage of variance. In the study conducted in order to construct the scales participated 338 subjects - 164 professionals from the social welfare field and 174 participants from the general population. The age of participants ranged from 18 to 63 years, with the average of 34.8 years (SD=12.22). The majority of participants were female (79.3%).The results showed that the participants had moderately positive attitudes toward both attitude objects, but their attitude toward exclusion of children from the families was more positive than toward foster care placement. Professionals' attitudes significantly differed in comparison to the participants from the general population. The social welfare professionals had more negative attitudes toward foster care placement, and more positive toward exclusion of children from the biological families. The results were interpreted within the framework of the theory of cognitive dissonance.

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