@article{ref1,
title="Brief implicit association tests of stigmatizing attitudes, awareness of mental distress and label-avoidance: a study in people with depressive symptoms",
journal="Community mental health journal",
year="2019",
author="Freitag, Simone and Stolzenburg, Susanne and Schomerus, Georg and Schmidt, Silke",
volume="55",
number="3",
pages="507-518",
abstract="This study aims to develop and implement brief implicit association tests (BIATs) assessing stigmatizing attitudes towards mental illness, awareness of mental distress and self-identification as having a mental illness. We recruited 229 people (age range 18-80 years) with currently untreated depressive symptoms. In addition to BIATs, explicit measures assessed depression severity, contact experience and self-identification as having a mental illness. BIATs showed good feasibility. Age and educational differences were observed for each BIAT. Regarding depression severity, people with mild depression severity showed stronger implicit label-avoidance. Novel BIATs proved feasible and future research should investigate the predictive value of implicit measures on help seeking in people with mental illness.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0010-3853",
doi="10.1007/s10597-019-00372-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-019-00372-1"
}