Depression self-stigma: A new measure and preliminary findings

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 663-670

  Kanter, Jonathan W ^a   Rusch, Laura C ^a   Brondino, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Scale development; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; RATING SCALE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; STIGMA; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 52649096538     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318183f8af     Document Type: Article

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