Labeling - Stereotype - Discrimination: An investigation of the stigma process

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 391-395

  Angermeyer, Matthias C ^a   Matschinger, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Labeling; Population survey; Schizophrenia; Stereotype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC OPINION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 19944425545     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0903-4     Document Type: Article

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