Explaining prejudice toward the mentally ill: A test of sociopolitical, demographic, and socioeconomic factors

Johansson, Ole Jørgen; Kunst, Jonas R.

doi:10.1111/jasp.12483

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“…In the SDO framework, individuals higher in the social hierarchy develop and endorse “hierarchy-supporting” myths about low-status groups, which often take the form of negative outgroup attitudes, and help to perpetuate the existing hierarchical structure of society (see Quist & Resendez, 2002). For example, in explaining the well-established link between SDO and MIS (Bizer et al, 2012; Haqanee et al, 2014; Johansson & Kunst, 2017; Lampropoulos et al, 2019), such myths have often been shown to serve as explanatory mechanisms between SDO and various MIS and discrimination-related outcomes (Bizer et al, 2012; Kvaale & Haslam, 2016; Lampropoulos & Apostolidis, 2018). While prior work has implicated the controllability attribution as a mechanism behind the SES–MIS link, it is likely to be more fully understood as a legitimizing myth which results from individual differences in SDO, perhaps serving the purpose of maintaining the current power hierarchy.…”

Section: Socioeconomic Status Mis and Controllability Attributionsmentioning

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Socioeconomic status and mental illness stigma: How income level and social dominance orientation may help to perpetuate stigma.

Foster¹

2021

Stigma and Health

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Prior research has established many factors which are linked with mental illness stigma (MIS). One such factor is that of socioeconomic status (SES). The current research intended to address if the link between SES, specifically income level, and MIS might be explained by social dominance orientation (SDO) and the legitimizing myth that mental illness onset is controllable in nature. A sample of 926 participants reported their level of household income and completed self-report measures of MIS, SDO, and mental illness controllability attributions (MI-Control). Results demonstrated that higher levels of income were associated with higher levels of MIS, SDO, and MI-Control. Furthermore, a significant three-path mediated effect was found from SES to MIS through SDO and MI-Control. Findings highlight the extent to which sociodemographic factors may be linked with negative attitudes toward those with mental illnesses, particularly when such factors work in tandem with competitive social worldviews. Implications in regard to the importance of socioeconomically diverse mental health funding committees are discussed.

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Section: Socioeconomic Status Mis and Controllability Attributionsmentioning

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Socioeconomic status and mental illness stigma: How income level and social dominance orientation may help to perpetuate stigma.

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2021

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“…This may have explained why more predictors significantly explained the stricter law enforcement policy dimension. Moreover, being unifactorial, our perceived psychopathology measure did not distinguish between different types of disorders, which can influence how targets are evaluated and judged (Johansson & Kunst, 2017). Finally, the present study focused on how lay people perceive what could be labeled as "home grown" terrorists.…”

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What makes a terrorist? Muslims’ and non-Muslims’ lay perceptions of risk factors and their consequences for counter-terrorism policy support

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Obaidi²,

Coenen³

et al. 2021

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The question of why people become terrorists has preoccupied scholars and policy makers for decades. Yet, very little is known about how lay people perceive individuals at risk of becoming terrorists. In two studies conducted in the U.K., we aimed to fill this gap. Study 1 showed that Muslims and non-Muslims perceived a potential minority-group terrorist in terms of both structural (e.g., life-history, social) and individual risk factors (e.g., personality, psychopathology, ideology). In Study 2, Muslims and non-Muslims perceived a potential right-wing majority-group terrorist as having more individual predispositions to terrorism than a potential left-wing terrorist. Importantly, in both studies, individualist perceptions such as psychopathology were positively associated with support for stricter law enforcement, whereas structuralist perceptions such as adverse childhood experiences were positively associated with support for social interventions. Lay people seem to have multifactorial understandings of individuals at risk of becoming terrorists, which influence their counter-terrorism policy support.

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“…En este sentido, los estudios sobre la CMJ y el prejuicio muestran una correlación positiva entre ambas variables (Rüsch et al, 2010;Bizer, Hart y Jekogian, 2012;Johansson y Kunst, 2017;Gatica et al, 2017); sin embargo, no se han hallado estudios que consideren las relaciones de la creencia en un mundo justo diferenciando las formas sutiles y manifiestas del prejuicio.…”

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Adaptación y validación de la escala de prejuicio sutil y manifiesto hacia personas en situación de pobreza

2022

RCS

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Among the studies on prejudice that consider its indirect expressions, the absence of instruments for measuring prejudice towards people affected by poverty is noted. The objective of this study was to adapt and validate a scale of subtle and overt prejudice towards people living in poverty, as well as to analyze its relationships with variables associated with the justification of the system. We worked with an intentional sample of 712 university students from Argentina, aged between 17 and 48 years. The results obtained showed that the proposed version of the scale has adequate psychometric properties in terms of its internal consistency and construct validity, for the structure of two correlated dimensions. These results are analogous to those obtained in other versions of the scale with different social groups. Likewise, positive correlations were observed between subtle prejudice, overt prejudice, orientation to social dominance and belief in a just world. It is concluded that the proposed scale would be an adequate instrument to evaluate the new forms of expression of prejudice towards people in poverty.

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Explaining prejudice toward the mentally ill: A test of sociopolitical, demographic, and socioeconomic factors

Cited by 3 publications

References 76 publications

Socioeconomic status and mental illness stigma: How income level and social dominance orientation may help to perpetuate stigma.

Socioeconomic status and mental illness stigma: How income level and social dominance orientation may help to perpetuate stigma.

What makes a terrorist? Muslims’ and non-Muslims’ lay perceptions of risk factors and their consequences for counter-terrorism policy support

Adaptación y validación de la escala de prejuicio sutil y manifiesto hacia personas en situación de pobreza

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