Socioeconomic status and mental illness stigma: the impact of mental illness controllability attributions and personal responsibility judgments
Socioeconomic status and mental illness stigma: the impact of mental illness controllability attributions and personal responsibility judgments
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DOI：
10.1080/09638237.2021.1875416
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发表时间：
2021-01-21
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
O'Mealey, Molly
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作者：
Foster, Stephen;O'Mealey, Molly
背景先前的研究表明，较高水平的社会经济地位（SES）可能与精神疾病的耻辱感（MIS）有关。它已被假定，这种联系是由于资源丰富的环境，高社会经济地位的个人生活在，这使他们看到的某些现象是更可控的性质比低社会经济地位individuals.AimsThe目前的研究旨在解决归因机制背后的社会经济地位-MIS link.MethodsIn样本的932名参与者，我们收集了自我报告的SES沿着可控性归因和参与者对精神疾病个体的个人责任判断。结果分析表明SES与更大的MIS水平显著相关，这种联系是显着介导的可控性归因和个人责任judgment.ConclusionsFindings表明，高SES个人更有可能看到精神疾病，由于内部，可控的因素，这导致指责个人的精神疾病发作，最终，更大的精神疾病的耻辱。这些结果提供了更多的社会经济多样化的委员会和小组的支持，心理健康的资金决策，由于固有的归因偏见，可能存在沿着SES频谱。
BackgroundPrior research has suggested that higher levels of socioeconomic status (SES) may be linked with heightened mental illness stigma (MIS). It has been posited that this link is due to the resource-rich environment high-SES individuals live in, which predisposes them to seeing the certain phenomena as being more controllable in nature than low-SES individuals.AimsThe current study intended to address the attributional mechanisms behind the SES-MIS link.MethodsIn a sample of 932 participants, we collected self-reported SES along with the controllability attributions and personal responsibility judgments participants make for individuals with mental illnesses.ResultsAnalyses indicated that SES was significantly associated with greater MIS levels, and that this link was significantly mediated by controllability attributions and personal responsibility judgments.ConclusionsFindings suggest that high-SES individuals are more likely to see mental illness as due to internal, controllable factors, which leads to blaming the individual for mental illness onset and, ultimately, greater mental illness stigma. These results provide support for more socioeconomically diverse committees and panels where mental health funding decisions are made due to inherent attributional biases which may be present along the SES spectrum.