Yasuhara Kento, Formon Dana L, Phillips Sarah, Yenne Elise M
College of Arts and Sciences, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA.
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, AL, USA.
Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2019 Feb 6;26(4):520-529. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2018.1507845. eCollection 2019.
Various stigmatizing notions are associated with mental illness, resulting in negative personal (e.g. employment discrimination) and societal (e.g. public treatment of the mentally ill as 'dangerous' and/or 'criminal') outcomes. This study develops and validates a new multi-scale assessment tool to assess several dimensions of mental illness stigma, including perceived dangerousness, self-care, social distance, treatment amenability and predicted police behavior. A total of 641 undergraduate students from various American universities completed the new stigma measure along with two other existing measures. The results indicate that the new stigma measure has an acceptable three-factor solution consisting of self-care, dangerousness and police behavior. The self-care and dangerousness factors were found to have concurrent validity with the corresponding scales of the existing measures. Future research involving different populations, as well as the policy implications of the new police behavior factor, are discussed.
各种污名化观念与精神疾病相关联，导致负面的个人（如就业歧视）和社会（如公众将精神病患者视为“危险分子”和/或“罪犯”）后果。本研究开发并验证了一种新的多维度评估工具，以评估精神疾病污名的几个维度，包括感知危险性、自我护理、社会距离、治疗顺应性和预测的警察行为。来自美国各大学的641名本科生完成了新的污名测量以及另外两项现有测量。结果表明，新的污名测量具有一个可接受的三因素解决方案，包括自我护理、危险性和警察行为。自我护理和危险性因素与现有测量的相应量表具有同时效度。讨论了涉及不同人群的未来研究以及新的警察行为因素的政策含义。
