@article{ref1,
title="Evaluating explicit and implicit stigma of mental illness in mental health professionals and medical students",
journal="Community mental health journal",
year="2014",
author="Kopera, Maciej and Suszek, Hubert and Bonar, Erin E. and Myszka, Maciej and Gmaj, Bartłomiej and Ilgen, Mark and Wojnar, Marcin",
volume="51",
number="5",
pages="628-634",
abstract="The study investigated explicit and implicit attitudes towards people with mental illness among medical students (non-professionals) with no previous contact with mentally ill patients and psychiatrists and psychotherapists (professionals) who had at least 2 years of professional contact with mentally ill patients. Explicit attitudes where assessed by self-report. Implicit attitudes were measured with the Go/No-Go Association Task, a variant of the Implicit Association Test that does not require the use of a comparison category. Compared to non-professionals, mental health professionals reported significantly higher approach emotions than non-professionals towards people with mental illness, showed a lesser tendency to discriminate against them, and held less restrictive attitudes. Both groups reported negative implicit attitudes towards mentally ill. <br><br>RESULTS suggest that both non-professionals and professionals display ambivalent attitudes towards people with mental illness and that professional, long-term contact with people with mental illness does not necessarily modify negative implicit attitudes.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0010-3853",
doi="10.1007/s10597-014-9796-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-014-9796-6"
}