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Attitudes of Chinese and American Male Students towards Mental Illness

Mohsen Shokoohi-Yekta

The University of Iowa, College of Education. Division of Curriculum and Instruction (Special Education), N274 Lindquist Center, Iowa City, IA 52242

Paul Retish

The University of Iowa, College of Education. Division of Curriculum and Instruction (Special Education), N274 Lindquist Center, Iowa City, IA 52242

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 Restricti veness, 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.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 37, No. 3, 192-200 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/002076409103700306
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