SCALING COMMUNITY ATTITUDES TOWARD THE MENTALLY-ILL
SCALING COMMUNITY ATTITUDES TOWARD THE MENTALLY-ILL
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DOI：
10.1093/schbul/7.2.225
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发表时间：
1981-01-01
影响因子：
6.6
通讯作者：
DEAR, MJ
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作者：
TAYLOR, SM;DEAR, MJ
自从引入以社区为基础的精神卫生保健以来，测量公众对精神病患者的态度具有了新的意义。以前的态度量表主要是在专业背景下构建和应用的。本文讨论了一套新的四个量表的开发和应用，明确设计来衡量社区对精神疾病的态度。该量表代表了以前的工具中包含的维度，特别是威权主义、仁慈、社会限制和社区精神卫生意识形态，但以一套几乎全新的项目来表达，这些项目强调与精神病患者和精神卫生设施的社区接触。研究数据来自多伦多社区对社区精神卫生设施的态度，用于测试量表的内部和外部效度。分析结果为量表的有效性提供了强有力的支持，并证明了其作为研究社区对精神卫生设施反应的解释和预测变量的有效性。
The measurement of public attitudes toward the mentally ill has taken on new significance since the introduction of community-based mental health care. Previous attitude scales have been constructed and applied primarily in a professional context. This article discusses the development and application of a new set of four scales explicitly designed to measure community attitudes toward the mentally ill. The scales represent dimensions included in previous instruments, specifically, authoritarianism, benevolence, social restrictiveness, and community mental health ideology, but are expressed in terms of an almost completely new set of items that emphasize community contact with the mentally ill and mental health facilities. Data from a study of community attitudes about neighborhood mental health facilities in Toronto are used to test the internal and external validity of the scales. Results of the analysis provide strong support for the validity of the scales and demonstrate their usefulness as explanatory and predictive variables for studying community response to mental health facilities.