Corrigan P W, Edwards A B, Green A, Diwan S L, Penn D L
University of ChicagoCenter for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Tinley Park, IL 60477, USA.
Schizophr Bull. 2001;27(2):219-25. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.schbul.a006868.
In this study, the paths between two prejudicial attitudes (authoritarianism and benevolence) and a proxy measure of behavioral discrimination (social distance) were examined in a sample drawn from the general public. Moreover, the effects of two person variables (familiarity with mental illness and ethnicity) on prejudice were examined in the path analysis. One hundred fifty-one research participants completed measures of prejudice toward, social distance from, and familiarity with mental illness. Goodness-of-fit indexes from path analyses supported our hypotheses. Social distance is influenced by both kinds of prejudice: authoritarianism (the belief that persons with mental illness cannot care for themselves, so a paternalistic health system must do so) and benevolence (the belief that persons with mental illness are innocent and childlike). These forms of prejudice, in turn, are influenced by the believers' familiarity with mental illness and their ethnicity. We also discuss how these findings might contribute to a fuller understanding of mental illness stigma.
在本研究中，我们从普通公众样本中考察了两种偏见态度（威权主义和仁爱主义）与行为歧视的一种替代指标（社会距离）之间的路径。此外，在路径分析中还考察了两个人口变量（对精神疾病的熟悉程度和种族）对偏见的影响。151名研究参与者完成了对精神疾病的偏见、社会距离以及熟悉程度的测量。路径分析的拟合优度指数支持了我们的假设。社会距离受到两种偏见的影响：威权主义（认为患有精神疾病的人无法照顾自己，因此必须由家长式的医疗系统来照顾他们）和仁爱主义（认为患有精神疾病的人是无辜且幼稚的）。反过来，这些偏见形式又受到信仰者对精神疾病的熟悉程度及其种族的影响。我们还讨论了这些发现如何有助于更全面地理解精神疾病的污名化问题。
