The public's stigmatizing attitudes towards people with mental disorders: how important are biomedical conceptualizations?
The public's stigmatizing attitudes towards people with mental disorders: how important are biomedical conceptualizations?
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1600-0447.2008.01251.x
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发表时间：
2008-10-01
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
Griffiths, K. M.
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作者：
Jorm, A. F.;Griffiths, K. M.
目的：本研究探讨的假设，污名化的态度增加使用精神标签，由概念化的症状作为一种医学疾病和信仰的遗传causes.Method：3998澳大利亚成年人的调查问的问题之一的四个小插曲：早期精神分裂症，慢性精神分裂症，抑郁症和抑郁症与自杀的想法。态度的社会距离量表和一个问题，关于可能judiciousness.Results：社会距离是无关的假设因素。对于精神分裂症（而不是抑郁症），相信诚实是由医学疾病概念化和遗传因果归因预测的。然而，更重要的因素是在小插曲的行为和信念，他们是因为弱点的character.Conclusion：生物医学概念化是不是主要原因的耻辱，而它是与精神疾病的行为和信念，这是因为个人的弱点。
Objective: This study examined hypotheses that stigmatizing attitudes are increased by use of psychiatric labels, by conceptualization of symptoms as a medical illness and by belief in genetic causes.Method: A survey of 3998 Australian adults asked questions about one of four vignettes: early schizophrenia, chronic schizophrenia, depression and depression with suicidal thoughts. Attitudes were measured by a social distance scale and a question about likely dangerousness.Results: Social distance was unrelated to the hypothesized factors. For schizophrenia (but not depression), belief in dangerousness was predicted by medical illness conceptualizations and genetic causal attribution. However, more important factors were the behaviours in the vignette and the belief that they are because of weakness of character.Conclusion: Biomedical conceptualizations are not the major cause of stigma, rather it is the behaviour associated with mental illness and the belief that this is because of personal weakness.