Attitudes Toward Mental Illness Among Relatives of Former Patients
Attitudes Toward Mental Illness Among Relatives of Former Patients
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前患者亲属对精神疾病的态度
DOI：
10.2307/2090513
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发表时间：
1961
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
H. Freeman
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作者：
H. Freeman
通过简短的结构化量表评估了既往住院患者的亲属对精神疾病病因、精神病院、既往患者的正常情况以及患者对其病情的责任的态度。研究发现这些态度与教育、年龄和语言能力有关。然而，这些态度与社会阶层之间并没有独立于教育的关系。分析表明，对精神疾病的“开明”态度可以更简单地基于不同的语言技能而不是基于“生活方式”的差异来解释。还发现亲属的态度与患者的出院后行为有关。预计在实施改变患者家属态度的程序时会遇到困难，因为他们的态度似乎“植根于”一系列不同的因素，包括社会化和情境变量。
Among relatives of formerly hospitalized patients, attitudes toward the etiology of mental illness, the mental hospital, the normalcy of former patients, and the responsibility of patients for their condition were assessed by means of short, structured scales. These attitudes were found to be associated with education, age, and verbal ability. There was no relationship, however, between these attitudes and social class, independent of education. The analysis suggests that "enlightened" attitudes toward mental illness can be more parsimoniously accounted for on the basis of differential verbal skills than on the basis of differences in "style of life." Attitudes of relatives were also found to be associated with the posthospital behavior of the patients. Difficulty may be anticipated in implementing procedures to modify the attitudes of patients' family members, for their attitudes appear to be "rooted" in a set of diverse elements that includes socialization as well as situational variables.