Causal beliefs and attitudes to people with schizophrenia

Matthias C. Angermeyer · Herbert Matschinger

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BACKGROUND: It is a widely shared belief that an increase in mental health literacy will result in an improvement of attitudes towards people with mental illness. AIMS: To examine how the German public's causal attributions of schizophrenia and their desire for social distance from people with schizophrenia developed over the 1990s. METHOD: A trend analysis was carried out using data from two representative population surveys conducted in the Lander constituting the former Federal Republic of Germany in 1990 and 2001. RESULTS: Parallel to an increase in the public's tendency to endorse biological causes, an increase in the desire for social distance from people with schizophrenia was found. CONCLUSIONS: The assumption underlying current anti-stigma programmes that there is a positive relationship between endorsing biological causes and the acceptance of people with mental illness appears to be problematic.

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