Ideology, Personality, and Institutional Policy in the Mental Hospital.

Gilbert, Doris C.; Levinson, Daniel J.

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“…These studies have tried to investigate the attitudes of the lay public towards mental illness (Cumming & Cumming, 1957;Nunnally, 1961), investigate the relationship between psychiatric hospital ideology and attitudes towards people with mental illness (Gilbert & Levinson, 1956), explore public attitude toward and knowledge of mental illness (Chou et al 1996;Shek, 1990; The Hong Kong Council of Social Service, 1997), identify the effect of education on attitudes towards mental illness (Yamamoto & Dizney, 1967;Wright & Klein, 1966), examine the public attitudes with structured instruments such as the 'Opinions on Mental Illness (OMI) Scale' (Cohen & Strt~ening, 1962), and generally understand issues relating to mental illness (Rahav, 1983;Keane, 1990). Study findings are inconsistent, particularly the relationship between attitudes towards mental illness and the social characteristics of the respondents.…”

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Sex Differences in Opinion Towards Mental Illness of Secondary School Students in Hong Kong

Chan

2000

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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Sex differences in social attitudes have been well documented. Women hold more positive attitudes toward mental illness than men do. This paper reports on the effect of sex differences in a study of secondary school students' opinions about mental illness in Hong Kong. A total of 2,223 secondary school students, drawn by random sample, completed a 45-item questionnaire on Opinion about Mental Illness in Chinese Community (OMICC) with a six-point Likert Scale. Individual items with weak correlations were eliminated, leaving 33 items for analysis (Cronbach's Alpha = .866). Using factor analysis six factors were identified. These include: Benevolence, Separatism, Stereotyping, Restrictiveness, Pessimistic Prediction and Stigmatization. Results showed that girls scored higher regarding benevolence. Boys were found to have more stereotyping, restrictive, pessimistic and stigmatizing attitudes towards mental illness.

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Sex Differences in Opinion Towards Mental Illness of Secondary School Students in Hong Kong

Chan

2000

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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“…THERE have been several studies of the attitudes of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals toward the causes and treatments of mental illness, and occasionally the term "ideology" has been used to characterize those attitudes (Gilbert and Levinson, 1956;Sharaf and Levinson, 1957;Strauss, 1964). At first glance, the use of such a term may seem out of place.…”

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Psychiatric Treatment Orientations and Professional Ideology

Armor¹,

Klerman²

1968

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

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“…To develop a scale to survey the opinion of people in Hong Kong about mental illness is necessary because information so gathered may be used to plan better programs and social services that help people develop a more objective and accurate perception of mental illness. Ideology (CMI) Scale (Gilbert & Levinson, 1956), the California F Scale (Struening, 1957), another one developed by Nunnally (1957), and the Opinions About Mental Illness (OMI) developed by Cohen & Struening (1962). The most popular and widely used scale is OMI, which originally consisted of 70 items, related to the cause, description, treatment, and prognosis of severe mental illness.…”

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Attitudes of adolescents towards mental illness: A comparison between Hong Kong and Guangzhou samples

Chan¹,

Ng²

2000

International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health

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This paper compares the findings of surveys about the attitudes of adolescent towards mental illness in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. A total of 2,223 secondary school students from Hong Kong and 1,796 middle school students from Guangzhou were drawn by multi-stage sampling method. Subjects were asked to complete a 45-item questionnaire on Opinion about Mental Illness in Chinese Community (OMICC) with a six-point Likert scale. Individual items with weak correlation were eliminated, leaving 33 items for the Hong Kong sample (Cronbach's Alpha = .866) and 29 for the Guangzhou sample (Cronbach's Alpha= .811). Five common factors were identified in the two places for comparison. Univariate t-tests showed that the sources of mental health knowledge of adolescents in the two places were different. Significant differences between the attitudes of the adolescents in the two places for the five factors (p<.001) were found. Using Chi-square tests, six items revealing significant differences (p<.001) greater than 50% between responses of agreement and disagreement in the two places were identified. It is clear that adolescents in Hong Kong are more open, humanistic and accepting of people with mental illness.with reference to the political and socio-cultural contexts of the two places and suggests ways to help adolescents develop more positive attitudes toward people with mental illness, which in turn will foster community integration.

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Ideology, Personality, and Institutional Policy in the Mental Hospital.

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Sex Differences in Opinion Towards Mental Illness of Secondary School Students in Hong Kong

Sex Differences in Opinion Towards Mental Illness of Secondary School Students in Hong Kong

Psychiatric Treatment Orientations and Professional Ideology

Attitudes of adolescents towards mental illness: A comparison between Hong Kong and Guangzhou samples

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