Development of Scale Measuring Attitudes of Visually Handicapped Towards Community

The present study describes the process of development of an indigenous scale to measure attitudes of visually handicapped toward community. The development and validation of this scale carried out in three steps by using independent samples. In the firt step, a pool of items was generated. Judges' opinion was sought m the second step to evaluate appropriateness of items. In the third step. factor analysis was performed for empirical evaluation appropriateness of item. In the third step, factor analysis was performed empirical evaluation of the scale on 55 visually handicapped people. The final scale comprised of 22 statements with 5-point response options. Factor analysis resulted in one major factor solution. The psychometric properties of attitude scale revealed an alpha coefficient of .92 for the entire scale. The empirical evaluation also showed sufficient validity of scale.