Stigma in America: Has anything changed?: Impact of perceptions of mental illness and dangerousness on the desire for social distance: 1996 and 2006

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 199, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 361-366

  Silton, Nava R ^a   Flannelly, Kevin J ^b   Milstein, Glen ^c   Vaaler, Margaret L ^d  

^a MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HealthCare Chaplaincy   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental illness; social distance; stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HAZARD; HUMAN; MALE; RELIGION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL STIGMA; VIGNETTE;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL STIGMA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958173222     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31821cd112     Document Type: Article

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