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Fox, Claudine (2020) Children's attitudes to people with mental illness. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 67 . 101117. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2020.101117 ISSN 0193-3973.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2020.101117
Abstract
This paper reports a study that adopted age-appropriate terminology to investigate 6–11-year-old children's attitudes towards mental illness (N = 120). The study utilized a semi-structured interview technique and card selection tasks to assess the children's attitudes to individuals diagnosed with different mental illnesses (anorexia nervosa, depression and dementia). Their attitudes were measured in terms of social distance, social functioning, emotional response and trait attributions. Findings suggested that children's responses varied according to the specific mental illness diagnosis for social functioning, emotional response and trait attributions. In addition, the children's attitudes towards the three characters showed different developmental profiles as a function of age for social functioning and trait attributions. The implications of these findings for theories of the development of prejudice, and implications for stigma reduction programs, are discussed.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0193-3973 | ||||||||
Official Date: | March 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 67 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 101117 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.appdev.2020.101117 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 September 2021 |
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