Angermeyer M C, Matschinger H
Psychiatrische Klinik der Universität Leipzig.
Gesundheitswesen. 1996 Jul;58(1 Suppl):18-24.
The focus of the present study centers on the attitude of the German public's attitude towards mentally ill individuals during the early 1990s, using the extent of social distance as its indicator. The study is based on a number of representative surveys carried out between 1990 and 1993. We found that alcohol dependents met with the highest level of rejection, even more so than those suffering from schizophrenia. Furthermore, personal experience with mental illness is associated with a lower level of desired social distance, which may be attributed to an increase of positive emotional reactions and reduced feelings of anxiety. There is a clear association between the social distance maintained by certain persons towards the mentally ill and the desired social distance displayed by the same persons to other "aliens", strangers or outsiders.
本研究的重点是20世纪90年代初德国公众对精神疾病患者的态度，以社会距离的程度作为指标。该研究基于1990年至1993年间进行的多项代表性调查。我们发现，酒精依赖者遭遇的排斥程度最高，甚至超过精神分裂症患者。此外，有过精神疾病的个人经历与较低的期望社会距离相关，这可能归因于积极情绪反应的增加和焦虑感的降低。某些人对精神疾病患者保持的社会距离与他们对其他“异类”、陌生人或局外人所表现出的期望社会距离之间存在明显关联。
