Citizen Advocacy Relationships: Advocate, Protege, and Relationship Characteristics and Satisfaction Ratings.

Widrick, Gary C.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ422920

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1990

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Citizen Advocacy Relationships: Advocate, Protege, and Relationship Characteristics and Satisfaction Ratings.

Widrick, Gary C.; And Others

Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), v15 n3 p170-76 Fall 1990

This study assessed personal and relationship characteristics of 75 advocate-mentally retarded protege pairs involved in citizen advocacy relationships. Results suggested that satisfaction with advocacy relationships is more a function of what advocates and proteges do together than of their personal traits. (DB)

Descriptors: Advocacy, Friendship, Helping Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship, Mental Retardation, Participant Characteristics, Participant Satisfaction, Social Integration

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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