Corrigan Patrick W, Watson Amy C
Joint Research Programs in Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Illinois Institute of Technology, 3424 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60616, USA.
Community Ment Health J. 2007 Oct;43(5):439-58. doi: 10.1007/s10597-007-9084-9. Epub 2007 Sep 18.
The purpose of this study is to determine how the demographics of perceivers influence their stigma of people with mental illness or with substance abuse. A nationally representative sample (N = 968) was asked to respond to a vignette describing a person with a health condition (schizophrenia, drug dependence, or emphysema) and his/her family member. Consistent with our hypotheses, women were less likely to endorse stigma than men. Participants with higher education were also less likely to stigmatize than less educated participants. Contrary to our expectations, nonwhite research participants were more likely to endorse stigma than whites. Implications of these findings for better understanding the stigma of mental illness, and the development of anti-stigma programs, are reviewed.
本研究的目的是确定认知者的人口统计学特征如何影响他们对患有精神疾病或药物滥用者的污名化。我们要求一个具有全国代表性的样本（N = 968）对一个描述患有健康状况（精神分裂症、药物依赖或肺气肿）的人和其家庭成员的 vignette 做出回应。与我们的假设一致，女性比男性更不太可能认可污名化。与受教育程度较低的参与者相比，受教育程度较高的参与者也更不太可能进行污名化。与我们的预期相反，非白人研究参与者比白人更有可能认可污名化。本文回顾了这些发现对于更好地理解精神疾病污名化以及反污名化项目发展的意义。
