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The  purpose of the study was to determine the key elements  of the attitudes of the UAE university students towards the handicapped , and to construct a likert-type scale that measures these attitudes, with emphasis on the emotional intensity for each item .there were  eight key elements of theses attitudes ; twelve items were developed to measure each element , which made up a scale of 96 items . then 313 university students were selected to check the validity and reliability of this instrument. The analysis of data , by applying the adopted criteria of emotional intensity. Factor analysis, using principle competent technique with varimax rotation , revealed that these items explain 56.7 of the variance. Because of the small number of the items in sum factors, the data were re- canalized for five per – determined factors , to increase the number of items in these factors. Theses factors were named based on contents. Also , the scale proved to have discriminate validity . regarding the reliability of the scale , it was found that the scale was internally consistent, and each of the factors had a reasonable internal consistency.