Stigmatizing perception of mental illness by Japanese students: Comparison of different psychiatric disorders

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 239-242

  Sugiura, Tomoko ^a   Sakamoto, Shinji ^b   Kijima, Nobuhiko ^c   Kitamura, Fusako ^d   Kitamura, Toshinori ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b OTSUMA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0034041710     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200004000-00009     Document Type: Article

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