Are continuum beliefs about psychotic symptoms associated with stereotypes about schizophrenia?

Psychosis

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-60

  Wiesjahn, Martin ^a   Brabban, Alison ^b   Jung, Esther ^a   Gebauer, Ulla B ^a   Lincoln, Tania M ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

continuum beliefs; schizophrenia; social distance; stereotypes; stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897639566     PISSN: 17522439     EISSN: 17522447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2012.740068     Document Type: Article

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