Gauging the Mental Health Content of the Mass Media

Taylor, Wilson L.

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“…Preliminary research has indicated that mental illness is a common theme in the mass media (Gerbner, 1961;Gerbner, Gross, Morgan, & Signorielli, 1980;W. Taylor, 1957;Wahl & Roth, 1982).…”

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Impact of a television film on attitudes toward mental illness

Wahl

Lefkowits

1989

American J of Comm Psychol

115

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The possible impact of a prime time television film portraying a mentally ill killer was investigated. Groups of college students were shown the film with and without a film trailer reminding viewers that violence is not characteristic of mentally ill persons. A third group viewed a film not about mental illness. Postfilm responses to the Community Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill scale indicated that those who saw the target film expressed significantly less favorable attitudes toward mental illness and community care of mentally ill persons than did those who saw the control film, regardless of whether of not they received the trailer along with the target film. Results support concerns that media depictions add to mental illness stigma and also suggest that corrective information alone may be sufficient to counteract the stigmatizing impact of such audience-involving mass media portrayals.

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“…Preliminary research has indicated that mental illness is a common theme in the mass media (Gerbner, 1961;Gerbner, Gross, Morgan, & Signorielli, 1980;W. Taylor, 1957;Wahl & Roth, 1982).…”

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Impact of a television film on attitudes toward mental illness

Wahl

Lefkowits

1989

American J of Comm Psychol

115

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“…The systematic, scientific investigation of portrayals of mental illness in the media began in the late 1950s (Gerbner, 1959;Taylor, 1957). Nunnally (1957) compared the views of mental health experts, the general public, and the mass media.…”

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The portrayal of mental illness on prime-time television

Diefenbach

1997

J. Community Psychol.

118

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In this content analysis of television, the portrayal of persons with mental disorders was highly correlated with the portrayal of violent crime. The mentally ill were found to be nearly 10 times more violent than the general population of television characters, and 10 to 20 times more violent (during a two week sample) than the mentally ill in the U.S. population (over the course of an entire year). The mentally ill on television were also judged to have a negative impact on society and a negative quality of life. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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“…An area of medicine which is often featured in the mass media is mental ill-health (Gerbner, 1961;Taylor, 1957;Wahl & Roth, 1982). Some researchers have cited demonstrable positive effects of viewing programmes that deal with this subject such as mental health education (Edwards, Penick, & Suway, 1973).…”

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Effects of a TV Drama Series upon Public Impressions about Psychiatrists

Sancho-Aldridge¹,

Gunter²

1994

Psychol Rep

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A survey was conducted among a nationally representative sample of over 2,800 UK television viewers to examine audience reactions towards a drama series about psychiatry. Whilst the majority of respondents agreed that the drama Shrinks was good entertainment and gave a realistic view of the field of psychiatry, those who reportedly had a close association with a mentally ill person were less likely to find the characterisations of the patients and psychiatrists credible. Despite the misgivings of practising psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, however, no evidence was found to support the idea that watching the drama resulted in misconceptions about the real world of psychiatric medicine.

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Gauging the Mental Health Content of the Mass Media

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Impact of a television film on attitudes toward mental illness

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