articleTop 10% cited

Familiarity With and Social Distance From People Who Have Serious Mental Illness

Psychiatric Services · 2001 · Vol. 52(7) · pp. 953–958

Patrick W. Corrigan✉(University of Chicago)Amy M. Green(University of Chicago)Robert E. Lundin(University of Chicago)Mary Ann Kubiak(University of Chicago)David L. Penn(University of Chicago)

View via DOI Publisher page

Abstract

Approaches to social change that increase the public's familiarity with serious mental illness will decrease stigma. Further studies are warranted that focus on how contact between members of the general public and persons who have serious mental illness may be facilitated.

Mental Health Treatment and Access Community Health and Development Suicide and Self-Harm StudiesMental illnessSocial distancePsychologyPerceptionStigma (botany)Social stigmaSocial perceptionClinical psychologySocial rejectionPsychiatry

MeSH terms

AdultAttitudeMental DisordersFearFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSurveys and QuestionnairesPsychological DistanceSocial PerceptionStereotypingUnited StatesRecognition, Psychology

Citations

535

FWCI

7.69

field-weighted impact

References

Percentile

97%

vs. same field & year

Citations per year

Cited by

Measuring Mental Illness Stigma