Abstract:Abstract The perception that mental patients represent a threat may support attitudes and behaviours of social exclusion and a contrary position to the precepts of the Psychiatric Reform. In this sense, this article has the objective of elaborating the Scale of Perceived Threat from the Mentally Ill and reporting the preliminary evidences of its factorial validity and internal consistence. For this purpose, two studies were performed: Study 1 performed an exploratory factor analysis composed of 244 uni… Show more
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