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An exploratory study of parents with mentally retarded children, plus previous research by others, suggests three hypotheses on problems of stigma that were systematically tested in mailed questionnaires returned by 319 mothers of seriously retarded children. Response to a series of statements were factor analyzed to form a scale of “stigma.”
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Levinson et al. (1981) studied this question.
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