Chinese College Students’ Stigmatization towards People with Mental Illness: Familiarity, Perceived Dangerousness, Fear, and Social Distance
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Study Design, Participants, and Procedures
2.2. Measurements
2.3. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Characteristics of Participants
3.2. Differences in Main Variables among Students
3.3. Bivariate Associations among Variables Hypothesized in the Model
3.4. Path Analysis
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Characteristics | N/Mean | %/SD |
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Age | 21.53 | 2.3 |
Gender | ||
Male | 664 | 44.5 |
Female | 829 | 55.5 |
Educational level | ||
≤Undergraduate | 1026 | 68.7 |
Postgraduate | 467 | 31.3 |
Hometown | ||
Urban area | 980 | 65.6 |
Rural area | 382 | 25.6 |
Others | 131 | 8.8 |
Ethnicity | ||
Han | 1442 | 96.6 |
Minority | 51 | 3.4 |
Familiarity (mean ± SD score) | 5.83 ± 3.32 | |
Perception of dangerousness (mean ± SD score) | 5.24 ± 1.97 | |
Fear (mean ± SD score) | 4.98 ± 2.15 | |
Social distance (mean ± SD score) | 22.51 ± 5.96 |
Familiarity | Perception of Dangerousness | Fear | Social Distance | |||||||||||||
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Mean | SD | p | Mean | SD | p | Mean | SD | p | Mean | SD | p | |||||
Age | 0.999 | 0.009 | ** | 0.008 | ** | 0.816 | ||||||||||
Gender | 0.008 | ** | 0.069 | 0.991 | <0.001 | *** | ||||||||||
Male | 6.08 | 3.43 | 5.34 | 2.04 | 4.98 | 2.23 | 21.33 | 6.38 | ||||||||
Female | 5.62 | 3.21 | 5.16 | 1.91 | 4.98 | 2.08 | 23.45 | 5.428 | ||||||||
Educational level | <0.001 | *** | 0.089 | 0.009 | ** | <0.001 | *** | |||||||||
≤Undergraduate | 6.09 | 3.35 | 5.18 | 2.02 | 4.88 | 2.16 | 22.03 | 6.151 | ||||||||
Postgraduate | 5.24 | 3.17 | 5.37 | 1.86 | 5.19 | 2.10 | 23.55 | 5.39 | ||||||||
Hometown | 0.36 | 0.994 | 0.437 | 0.899 | ||||||||||||
Urban area | 5.91 | 3.29 | 5.24 | 2.00 | 4.93 | 2.17 | 22.53 | 6.22 | ||||||||
Rural area | 5.63 | 3.35 | 5.25 | 1.94 | 5.08 | 2.08 | 22.39 | 5.32 | ||||||||
Others | 5.79 | 3.43 | 5.25 | 1.82 | 5.07 | 2.15 | 22.63 | 5.81 | ||||||||
Ethnicity | 0.995 | 0.086 | 0.84 | 0.428 | ||||||||||||
Han | 5.83 | 3.32 | 5.22 | 1.97 | 4.98 | 2.14 | 22.48 | 6.00 | ||||||||
Minority | 5.82 | 3.21 | 5.71 | 1.97 | 4.92 | 2.37 | 23.16 | 4.781 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
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1. Familiarity | 1 | |||
2. Perception of dangerousness | 0.063 * | 1 | ||
3. Fear | 0.039 | 0.731 ** | 1 | |
4. Social distance | −0.194 ** | 0.065 * | 0.083 ** | 1 |
95% Confidence Intervals | |||
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Pathways | Standardized Indirect Effect | Lower Limit | Upper Limit |
PD → F2 → SD | 0.063 ** | 0.029 | 0.101 |
F1 → PD → F2 → SD | 0.004 | 0.001 | 0.008 |
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Li, X.-H.; Wong, Y.-L.I.; Wu, Q.; Ran, M.-S.; Zhang, T.-M. Chinese College Students’ Stigmatization towards People with Mental Illness: Familiarity, Perceived Dangerousness, Fear, and Social Distance. Healthcare 2024, 12, 1715. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12171715
Li X-H, Wong Y-LI, Wu Q, Ran M-S, Zhang T-M. Chinese College Students’ Stigmatization towards People with Mental Illness: Familiarity, Perceived Dangerousness, Fear, and Social Distance. Healthcare. 2024; 12(17):1715. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12171715
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Xu-Hong, Yin-Ling Irene Wong, Qinglu Wu, Mao-Sheng Ran, and Tian-Ming Zhang. 2024. "Chinese College Students’ Stigmatization towards People with Mental Illness: Familiarity, Perceived Dangerousness, Fear, and Social Distance" Healthcare 12, no. 17: 1715. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12171715