Attitudes of Chinese and American Male Students towards Mental Illness

Mohsen Shokoohi-Yekta and Paul Retish
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Mohsen Shokoohi-Yekta: The University of Iowa, College of Education. Division of Curriculum and Instruction (Special Education), N274 Lindquist Center, Iowa City, IA 52242
Paul Retish: The University of Iowa, College of Education. Division of Curriculum and Instruction (Special Education), N274 Lindquist Center, Iowa City, IA 52242

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1991, vol. 37, issue 3, 192-200

Abstract: Attitudes towards mental illness were measured by the Opinion About Mental illness Scale (OMI) for 83 male graduate college students from American and Chinese cultural backgrounds. The OMI questionnaire consisted of five factors: A) Authoritarianism, B) Benevolence, C) Mental Hygiene Ideology, D) Social Restricti veness, and E) Interpersonal Etiology. Statistically significant differences between the two groups of subjects on Factors A, B, D and E of the OMI were found. American students performed lower on "Authoritarianism", on "Social Restrictiveness", and on "Interpersonal Etiology", and higher on "Benevolence" than Chinese subjects.

Date: 1991
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