Green County Social Services Department is interested in placing a group home for adults with mental retardation in a neighborhood. The department wants to measure the feelings of people in the Meadowood neighborhood towards cognitively disabled adults. The staff creates a questionnaire that contains an item that has six categories for the degree of contact that goes from "Having cognitively disabled adults in my city," to "Having a cognitively disabled adult as a roommate."
Neighborhood residents are to begin with the first category and mark all those that they feel personally comfortable with. The questionnaire uses the

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The Bogardus Social Distance Scale is used to measure the willingness of individuals to participate in social contacts of varying degrees of closeness with members of diverse social groups, which aligns with the described methodology of marking comfort levels with different degrees of contact with cognitively disabled adults.

Green County Social Services Department Is Interested in Placing a Group