Opinions of Psychiatric Hospital Personnel and College Students toward Alcoholism, Mental Illness, and Physical Disability: An Exploratory Study
- 1 October 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 15 (2) , 615-618
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1964.15.2.615
Abstract
This exploratory study investigated the attitudes of 303 college students and 521 psychiatric hospital staff members toward alcoholism, mental illness, and physical disability. The Attitude Toward Disabled Persons Scale was adapted to yield two additional scales probing alcoholism and mental illness. Statistically significant differences were not found between the mean scores of the college students and the hospital personnel on the scales. Both groups were significantly more accepting of physical disability than of the other two illnesses. The students were slightly, and the hospital personnel were significantly, more accepting of alcoholics than of mentally ill people but the mean scores of both groups on both scales were still within the non-accepting range.Keywords
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