How Do Children Stigmatize People With Mental Illness?

Corrigan, Patrick W.; Watson, Amy C.; Otey, Emeline; Westbrook, Anne L.; Gardner, April L.; Lamb, Theodore A.; Fenton, Wayne S.

doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00218.x

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“…However, to date there is little evidence to suggest robust or consistent racial/ethnic or cross-cultural differences in negative attitudes toward different types of youth psychopathology (Corrigan et al, 2007). Weisz and colleagues vignette based studies suggesting that Thai adults were generally less concerned about both internalizing and externalizing child behavior problems than American adults (Weisz et al, 1988, Weisz, Suwanlert, Chaiyasit, Weiss, & Jackson, 1991).…”

Section: Stigma Attitudes and Self-reported Internalizing And Externamentioning

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Adolescents’ Stigma Attitudes Toward Internalizing and Externalizing Disorders

Lau

Guo

Tsai

et al. 2016

Clinical Psychological Science

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Objective This study examined predictors of stigma attitudes toward common youth emotional behavioral problems to test the hypothesis that interdependent cultural values would be associated with differential stigma towards externalizing versus internalizing disorders. Furthermore, we examined whether problem-specific stigma attitudes would predict adolescent’s own self-reported manifestations of distress. Method 1224 Vietnamese American and European American adolescents completed measures of social distance stigma attitudes in response to vignettes depicting youth with internalizing (depression, social anxiety, somatization) and externalizing (alcohol use, aggressive behaviors, delinquency) disorders. A subset of 676 youth also provided self-reports on their own adjustment prospectively over six months. Results Measurement models revealed clear separation of negatively correlated factors assessing stigma toward externalizing versus internalizing problems. Values related to family interdependence were significantly associated with greater tolerance of internalizing disorders and lower tolerance of externalizing disorders. Stigma towards internalizing disorders was associated with lower concurrent self-reported internalizing symptoms, whereas stigma towards externalizing symptoms was associated with lower concurrent externalizing symptoms and greater decreases in externalizing symptoms over time. Conclusions The results of the study suggest that stigma attitudes are differentiated by problem type and may represent one cultural factor shaping distress manifestations.

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Section: Stigma Attitudes and Self-reported Internalizing And Externamentioning

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Adolescents’ Stigma Attitudes Toward Internalizing and Externalizing Disorders

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Guo

Tsai

et al. 2016

Clinical Psychological Science

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“…The Attribution Questionnaire (AQ-8-C) is described as a measure of public stigma for adolescents, and this instrument is also referred to as the Revised Attribute Question or r-AQ in Watson et al (2004). The r-AQ has been used frequently in large adolescent populations (Corrigan et al, 2005; Corrigan, 2007). Among adolescent studies, psychometric data on the r-AQ for adolescents has been limited to reporting of reliability only (Watson et al, 2004), and individual survey items have been used in the r-AQ represent a single attribute to examine a hypothesis using path analyses, but not the instrument as a whole (Corrigan et al, 2005; Corrigan et al, 2007).…”

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“…The r-AQ has been used frequently in large adolescent populations (Corrigan et al, 2005; Corrigan, 2007). Among adolescent studies, psychometric data on the r-AQ for adolescents has been limited to reporting of reliability only (Watson et al, 2004), and individual survey items have been used in the r-AQ represent a single attribute to examine a hypothesis using path analyses, but not the instrument as a whole (Corrigan et al, 2005; Corrigan et al, 2007). Psychometric evaluations of stigma scales that describe validity are beginning to emerge in the adolescent literature.…”

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Stigma Scale for Receiving Psychological Help (SSRPH)

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Stigma is one of the greatest obstacles to mental health care and is associated with more severe psychiatric symptoms, impaired daily functioning, and limited engagement in mental health treatment. The Stigma Scale for Receiving Professional Psychological Help (SSRPH) is a measure of public stigma, which has been used in young adults and has limited psychometric data in adolescents. This paper reports the reliability and validity of the SSRPH in adolescent girls (n=156, age 13–17). Discriminant validity was supported, but concurrent validity was not. The confirmatory factor analysis revealed excellent model fit and serves as beginning evidence for construct validity. Cronbach’s alpha for the SSRPH was .65. The SSRPH was stable over 8 weeks. Findings suggest that the SSRPH can serve as a foundation for further instrument development. Future studies may explore enhancing the reliability and validity of the SSRPH and employ advanced analytic techniques to examine the overall global construct of stigma, the latent constructs of public and private stigma, and associations of individual items to these constructs.

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“…Stereotypes. ‘Responsibility’ and ‘Dangerousness’ were assessed using single items from the revised Attribution Questionnaire (r‐AQ; Corrigan et al., 2007 ). ‘Responsibility’: ‘It is not [target child’s] fault that he–she acts like this’.…”

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Explicit and implicit stigma towards peers with mental health problems in childhood and adolescence

O'Driscoll

Heary

Hennessy

et al. 2012

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Background: Children and adolescents with mental health problems are widely reported to have problems with peer relationships; however, few studies have explored the way in which these children are regarded by their peers. For example, little is known about the nature of peer stigmatisation, and no published research has investigated implicit attitudes thus ensuring that stigma is not well understood. To address this issue, the current study explored patterns of explicit and implicit stigmatisation of peers with depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Methods: The sample was 385 children (M = 10.21 years) and adolescents (M = 15.36 years). Participants completed a questionnaire assessing explicit stigma towards an age‐ and gender‐matched peer with ADHD or depression and another peer with ‘normal issues’ who were described in vignettes. They also completed a modified version of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) that explored implicit attitudes towards the target peers. Results: Questionnaire data indicated that the peer with ADHD was perceived more negatively than the peer with depression on all dimensions of stigma, except perceived dangerousness and fear. In contrast, the IAT findings suggest that some participants had more negative views of the peer with depression than the peer with ADHD. Specifically, the findings demonstrate that adolescent males demonstrated significantly stronger negative implicit evaluations of depression compared with younger males and adolescent females. Conclusions: Children and adolescents demonstrate stigmatising responses to peers with common mental health problems. The nature and extent of these responses depends on the type of problem and the type of measurement used. The findings highlight the importance of using both explicit and implicit measures of stigma.

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How Do Children Stigmatize People With Mental Illness?

Cited by 24 publications

References 105 publications

Adolescents’ Stigma Attitudes Toward Internalizing and Externalizing Disorders

Adolescents’ Stigma Attitudes Toward Internalizing and Externalizing Disorders

Stigma Scale for Receiving Psychological Help (SSRPH)

Explicit and implicit stigma towards peers with mental health problems in childhood and adolescence

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