Stability of Mental Health Attitudes: A Semantic Differential Study

Donald W. Olmsted

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Research reviews conclude that popular mental health attitnldes are changing, generally yfor the better. InI this longitudinal study, two comparable sets oqfcollege students responded in 1962 (n =215) and in 1971 (n =319) to a semantic differential of eight concepts and tvwelve scales. (Contrary to expectations, attitudes were remarkablv similarfor the two samples: correlations ofconcept means ranged from .95 to .99, and scale means were almost identical in rank order. NATnnally's finding in the 1 950's were generally substantiated, wvith the addition that Ex-Mental Patient was perceived as high/ly similar to Average Man, suggesting that stigma mnav nmot be permanent. The general public and college students appear closely to co-vary imm attitudes, with (liferences of intensity rather than direction or dimension; bath categories am)e interpreted as participammts in a penrasive stable system of' cultural beliefs about p.svchological disorder.

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