What about Female Psychology Students’ Explicit and Implicit Attitudes to Mental Illness?

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10.2991/iceemt-18.2018.106How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mental illness attitudes; Explicit measure; Implicit measure; psychology students

Abstract

This study attempted to explore the attitudes among individuals from psychology profession by direct and indirect measures, in order to examine the effect of education to anti-stigma. 49 female psychology undergraduates were recruiting to complete the explicit and implicit attitudes mental illness attitudes with the Social Distance Scale (SDS) and the Implicit Association Test (IAT). The results showed that the implicit effect of IAT was not significant and the scores of SDS were substantially below the midpoints of this scale, and that explicit and implicit measures of mental illness attitudes were unrelated. In our sample, female psychology students did not have significant mental illness stigma in implicit and explicit measures. Our findings suggested that modern professional education may be effective on improving student’s attitudes toward mental illness.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Xiaogang Wang
AU  - Yani Cai
AU  - Ying Wang
AU  - Ying Pan
AU  - Xiaomei Jin
AU  - Wan Zhou
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - What about Female Psychology Students’ Explicit and Implicit Attitudes to Mental Illness?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 3rd International Conference on Education, E-learning and Management Technology (EEMT 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 545
EP  - 549
SN  - 2352-5398
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