Attitudes of Chinese and American male students towards mental illness.

Int J Soc Psychiatry

University of Iowa, College of Education, Division of Curriculum and Instruction (Special Education), Iowa City 52242.

Published: January 1992

Attitudes towards mental illness were measured by the Opinion About Mental Illness Scale (OMI) for 83 male graduate college students from American and Chinese cultural backgrounds. The OMI questionnaire consisted of five factors: A) Authoritarianism, B) Benevolence, C) Mental Hygiene Ideology, D) Social Restrictiveness, and E) Interpersonal Etiology. Statistically significant differences between the two groups of subjects on Factors A, B, D and E of the OMI were found. American students performed lower on "Authoritarianism", on "Social Restrictiveness", and on "Interpersonal Etiology", and higher on "Benevolence" than Chinese subjects.

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