کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5038964 1473058 2018 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Do continuum beliefs reduce schizophrenia stigma? Effects of a laboratory intervention on behavioral and self-reported stigma
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
آیا اعتقادات یکپارچه باعث کاهش شیگا اسکیزوفرنی می شوند؟ تأثیر یک مداخله آزمایشگاهی بر نشانه رفتاری و خود گزارش شده
کلمات کلیدی
ننگ روانپزشکی، باورهای پیوسته، جنون جوانی،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی روانپزشکی و بهداشت روانی
چکیده انگلیسی


- Belief in a continuum of psychiatric problems predicts decreased public stigma.
- We investigated effects of continuum belief intervention on schizophrenia stigma.
- Continuum intervention decreased self-reported social distance.
- A categorical view of schizophrenia increased endorsement of damaging stereotypes.
- Our behavioral measure of stigma showed significant links to valid stigma measures.

Background and objectivesCorrelational research shows that belief in a continuum of psychiatric problems predicts decreased public stigma. However, the correlational findings fail to inform the stigma reduction prospects of manipulating continuum beliefs. All extant experimental work has been executed online. This study examined effects of a laboratory-based continuum intervention on behavioral and self-report measures of psychiatric stigma.MethodsSixty-nine undergraduates believed that they would meet a man with schizophrenia. They then read a bogus scientific article that attested to a categorical view of schizophrenia, a continuum view, or that merely described schizophrenia. Some participants then completed a task that required reflection on their differences from (categorical group) or similarities to (continuum group) the man with schizophrenia. Participants eventually moved to an adjacent room and sat in one of several seats that varied in their proximity to a seat ostensibly occupied by the man with schizophrenia.ResultsThe continuum intervention decreased self-reported social distance and the categorical intervention increased endorsement of damaging stereotypes. Seat selection was unaffected by our manipulation, but we obtained evidence of significant links to validated stigma measures.LimitationsOur sample was small, and our behavioral stigma measure could be modified to maximize variability in participants' seat selection.ConclusionsThe study offers modest support of the stigma reduction effect of continuum belief intervention. It offers new evidence of the pernicious consequences of interventions that inflate perceptions of the “otherness” of individuals with psychiatric problems. Finally, it shines new light on stigma-related behavior measurable in the laboratory.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - Volume 58, March 2018, Pages 29-35
نویسندگان
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