Opinions about Mental Illness: Mental Hospital Occupational Profiles and Profile Clusters

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Opinions about Mental Illness (OMI) yields five standardized opinion-attitude factor scores. Profiles were determined for 19 occupational groups (N = 8,248), all but 3 of mental hospital personnel. Using distance functions in a 5-space, the following profile clusters were found: I-Low on Authoritarianism, otherwise average: white-collar groups, activity therapists, physicians and dentists, nurses; II-Very high on Authoritarianism and Social Restrictiveness, low on Benevolence: blue-collar groups, aides; III-Very low on Authoritarianism and Social Restrictiveness, very high on Mental Hygiene Ideology, high on Interpersonal Etiology: psychologists, social workers; IV-Low on Authoritarianism and Social Restrictiveness, high on Mental Hygiene Ideology: Kansas clergymen, V.A. chaplains. Psychiatrists did not fall in any cluster, but occupied a position between Clusters III and IV.".

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