ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
A Contagious Other? Exploring the Public's Appraisals of Contact with 'Mental Illness'.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Understanding the public stigma of mental illness: a mixed-methods, multi-level, exploratory triangulation study.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Compassionate Othering: the construction of refugee patients in medical students' narratives - a qualitative study using story completion.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Exploring the stigma against people with mental illness in Bangladesh.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Using Twitter to Assess Stigma to Schizophrenia and Psychosis: A Qualitative Study.Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- Charting an Alternative Course for Mental Health-Related Anti-Stigma Social and Behaviour Change Programmes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A Call to Action. A Critical Review of Mental Health Related Anti-stigma Campaigns.Frontiers in public health · 2020Review
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Abstract
Mental illness has recurrently been found to be Othered by the lay public, although few researchers have examined the affective and implicit processes involved. To explore this, we triangulated facial electromyography (EMG), self-reports, and individual interview data, finding participants to Other mental illness, a process that involved disgust, fear and pity. Furthermore, mental illness was considered to have the potential to permeate, posing a contagious threat. This research highlights the need to fully explore the forms of understanding, which maintain mental-health related stigma, including beliefs about contamination, and the implications this may have for the design of anti-stigma campaigns.
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