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Funeral Service Employers' Perceptions Of Body Art And Hireability, Tanya E. Scotece
Funeral Service Employers' Perceptions Of Body Art And Hireability, Tanya E. Scotece
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this research was to determine whether there were biases among funeral home and cemetery professionals with regards to hiring mortuary science graduates with tattoos.
An anonymous survey including a photograph of either a male or female with various degrees of visible body art, ranging from none to extreme, was sent to 1484 members of the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association. The primary methodology used to determine whether biases existed regarding visible body art were a semantic differential and a hireability scale. The survey was designed to gather information related to the following three research questions:
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