Does television influence adolescents' perceptions of and attitudes toward people with mental illness?

Minnebo, Jurgen; Acker, An Van

doi:10.1002/jcop.20001

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“…Knowledge Test of Mental Illness (KT) Michaels & Corrigan, 2013 [ 116 ] r b = .50-.70 ( p < .05; .001) CC; CS A 55. Attitudes Toward Social Competence and Integration of People with Mental Illness Minnebo & Acker et al, 2004 [ 117 ] α a = .77; .79 FA A 56. Client Attitude Questionnaire Morrison & Becker, 1975 [ 120 ] r b = .90; .93 ?…”

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Mental health literacy measures evaluating knowledge, attitudes and help-seeking: a scoping review

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BackgroundMental health literacy has received increasing attention as a useful strategy to promote early identification of mental disorders, reduce stigma and enhance help-seeking behaviors. However, despite the abundance of research on mental health literacy interventions, there is the absence of evaluations of current available mental health literacy measures and related psychometrics. We conducted a scoping review to bridge the gap.MethodsWe searched PubMed, PsycINFO, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, and ERIC for relevant studies. We only focused on quantitative studies and English publications, however, we didn’t limit study participants, locations, or publication dates. We excluded non-English studies, and did not check the grey literature (non peer-reviewed publications or documents of any type) and therefore may have missed some eligible measures.ResultsWe located 401 studies that include 69 knowledge measures (14 validated), 111 stigma measures (65 validated), and 35 help-seeking related measures (10 validated). Knowledge measures mainly investigated the ability of illness identification, and factual knowledge of mental disorders such as terminology, etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, and consequences. Stigma measures include those focused on stigma against mental illness or the mentally ill; self-stigma ; experienced stigma; and stigma against mental health treatment and help-seeking. Help-seeking measures included those of help-seeking attitudes, intentions to seek help, and actual help-seeking behaviors.ConclusionsOur review provides a compendium of available mental health literacy measures to facilitate applying existing measures or developing new measures. It also provides a solid database for future research on systematically assessing the quality of the included measures.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-015-0681-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Similarly, Diefenbach and West () noticed that the more hours people watched television, the more pronounced their opinion was that mental health programs in local neighborhoods would be dangerous to the community. Finally, Minnebo and Van Acker () found that people who had the ability to clearly distinguish between fiction and reality had more positive feelings toward persons with mental disorders.…”

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The Effects of Tv and Film Exposure on Knowledge About and Attitudes Toward Mental Disorders

Kimmerle

Cress

2013

Journal Community Psychology

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Two empirical studies examined whether the portrayal of mental disorders on television and in films has an effect on people's knowledge about and attitudes toward the mentally ill. Study 1 found that the more often people watched television, the poorer their knowledge was about schizophrenia and obsessive‐compulsive disorder. This finding did not apply to major depression. Study 2 demonstrated that people who watched a documentary film acquired more knowledge about schizophrenia than people who watched a fictional film, despite identical information in both films. Moreover, people who watched a fictional film had more negative emotional reactions (rejecting and unpleasant feelings) toward schizophrenia patients.

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“…This measure takes differences in television viewing on different types of day into account. The resulting estimate is less susceptible to error than single-item measures (Minnebo and van Acker, 2004).…”

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The Relationship between Docu Soap Exposure and Adolescents' Career Aspirations

Bulck

Beullens²

2007

European Journal of Communication

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A B S T R A C TThis study aimed to explore the relationship between adolescents' viewing of docu soaps and their career aspirations. The results show that among a sample of 369 adolescents in their last year of secondary education, regular viewing of a docu soap about midwives, veterinarians or para-commandos was a significant predictor of more positive perceptions of that profession. Ecological data on student numbers suggested that these went up in periods following the broadcasting of a successful docu soap about a particular profession. The odds of becoming a student of a study programme recently featured in a docu soap increased by 15 percent. The discussion focuses on the implications of these findings and emphasizes the need for continued research in this area.

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Does television influence adolescents' perceptions of and attitudes toward people with mental illness?

Cited by 11 publications

References 33 publications

Mental health literacy measures evaluating knowledge, attitudes and help-seeking: a scoping review

Mental health literacy measures evaluating knowledge, attitudes and help-seeking: a scoping review

The Effects of Tv and Film Exposure on Knowledge About and Attitudes Toward Mental Disorders

The Relationship between Docu Soap Exposure and Adolescents' Career Aspirations

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