Trial reportSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2014
Genetic attributions and mental illness diagnosis: effects on perceptions of danger, social distance, and real helping decisions.
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- Key Ingredients-Target Groups, Methods and Messages, and Evaluation-of Local-Level, Public Interventions to Counter Stigma and Discrimination: A Lived Experience Informed Selective Narrative Literature Review.Community mental health journal · 2018Review
- Gender effect on public stigma changes towards psychosis in the Hong Kong Chinese population: a comparison between population surveys of 2009 and 2014.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2017Article
- Etiological Beliefs, Treatments, Stigmatizing Attitudes toward Schizophrenia. What Do Italians and Israelis Think?Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Depression and genetic causal attribution of epilepsy in multiplex epilepsy families.Epilepsia · 2016Article
- Asian Americans and European Americans' stigma levels in response to biological and social explanations of depression.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
unlabelledGenetic essentialism suggests that beliefs in genetic causes of mental illness will inflate a desire for social distance from affected individuals, regardless of specific disorder. However, genetic contingency theory predicts that genetic attributions will lead to an increased desire for social distance only from persons with disorders who are perceived as dangerous. PURPOSE: To assess the interactive effect of diagnosis and attribution on social distance and actual helping decisions across disorders.
methodsUndergraduate students (n = 149) were randomly assigned to read one of the six vignettes depicting a person affected by one of the three disorders (i.e., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression) with either a genetic or environmental causal attribution for disorder. Participants completed measures of perceived dangerousness, social distance, empathic concern, familiarity with mental illness, and actual helping decisions.
resultsWhen provided with genetic attributions, participants' desire for social distance was greater for targets with schizophrenia relative to targets with depression or bipolar disorder. This effect was mediated by perceived dangerousness. The indirect effect of diagnosis on helping decisions, through social distance, was significant within the genetic attribution condition.
conclusionConsistent with genetic contingency theory, genetic attributions for schizophrenia, but not affective disorders, lead to greater desire for social distance via greater perceived dangerousness. Further, results suggest that genetic attributions decrease the likelihood of helping people with schizophrenia, but have no effect on the likelihood of helping people with affective disorders. These effects are partially accounted for by desired social distance from people with schizophrenia.
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