Relation of Age and Education to Attitudes toward Mental Illness

1 October 1966

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports

Vol. 19 (2) , 649-650
https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1966.19.2.649

Abstract

Using the Custodial Mental Illness Ideology Scale as a measuring instrument with 56 Ss, it was found that low age and high education were related to a liberal attitude toward mental illness.

Keywords

IDEOLOGY
INSTRUMENT
LIBERAL
CUSTODIAL
AGE AND EDUCATION
ATTITUDES TOWARD MENTAL
ATTITUDE TOWARD MENTAL ILLNESS
EDUCATION TO ATTITUDES

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

The Functional Approach to the Study of Attitudes
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1960
Ideology, personality, and institutional policy in the mental hospital.
The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1956