Measuring the internalized stigma of parents of persons with a serious mental illness: The factor structure of the parents' internalized stigma of mental illness scale

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 183-187

  Zisman Ilani, Yaara ^a   Levy Frank, Itamar ^b   Hasson Ohayon, Ilanit ^b   Kravetz, Shlomo ^b   Mashiach Eizenberg, Michal ^c   Roe, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Yezreel Valley College   (Israel)

Author keywords

Factor structure; Parenting; Serious mental illness; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERNALIZED STIGMA OF MENTAL ILLNESS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STEREOTYPY; STIGMA;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL STIGMA; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84875011734     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182845d00     Document Type: Article

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