Abstract
Adults who had no experience in the area of mental retardation viewed slides of residential settings, five providing housing for people with mental retardation, and rated their 'home-likeness' (1 = home-like, 5 = institutional). Of 55 two-way comparisons, the mean home-likeness ratings of 48 such pairs differed significantly from one another. A .98 log-linear correlation was found between number of residents in a given facility and institutional ratings. Of 26 features of living rooms studied in detail, furniture position, lighting type, and lighting flexibility were highly correlated with home-likeness, whereas building code-specific features and seating type were minimally related to home-likeness.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 328-341 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | American Journal on Mental Retardation |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 1990 |
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