Predictors of Participation in Campaigns against Mental Illness Stigma

Stigmatizing Attitudes About Mental Illness and Allocation of Resources to Mental Health Services

“…When completing the AQ, research participants are presented a very short and neutral statement about ''Harry'' who works as a clerk in a law firm and has been hospitalized for schizophrenia. Other work by our group shows asking participants to respond to a specific person with mental illness, rather than to people with mental illness in general, leads to a more sensitive measure of attitudes that better corresponds with concurrent validators (Corrigan et al, 1999).…”

“…Research participants for our study were drawn from the at-large student body of a local community college. We have used community college students in prior research because they tend to be more demographically representative of the population as a whole than college sophomores from 4-year universities (Corrigan et al, 2001b;Corrigan et al, 1999;Corrigan et al, 2002;Reinke, Corrigan, & Leonhard, in press). Data for this paper was obtained from a larger study on the impact of anti-stigma programs (Corrigan, Watson, Warpinski, & Gracia, MS submitted to Psychiatric Services).…”

Is Psychiatric Research Stigmatized? An Experimental Survey of the Public

“…9 The public has also been shown to attribute more personal responsibility and other specific causal explanations for mental health problems such as psychosis compared to those associated with medical illness. 14,15 Additionally, society tolerates inequities in the allocation of resources for the treatment of mental illness, [16][17][18] and funding remains grossly inadequate for the persistent high levels of need for such services. 16,19 With regard to research participation, mentally ill patients are seen as incompetent and potentially more easily coerced.…”

Which Emotion(s) Mediate the Relationship Between Mental Illness and Trust?

“…Unfortunately media has perpetuated the erroneous beliefs that those with mental illness should be feared due to violent character portrayals (Angermeyer, Matschinger, & Corrigan, 2004;Corrigan, River, Lundin, Uphoff-Wasowski, Campion, Mathisen et al 1999;Link, Phelan, Bresnahan, Stueve, & Pescosolido, 2007;Haslam, Bain, Douge, Lee, & Bastian, 2005;Leyens, Demoulin, Vaes, Gaunt, & Paladino;Wahl, 1995). These beliefs have not only increased the stigma associated with mental illness but have also preserved the notion that sufferers lack humanity (Martinez, Piff, Mendoza,-Denton and Hinshaw, 2011).…”