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Orleman, Elizabeth Mary.

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Peer discrimination and children's conceptions of mental illness.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Peer discrimination and children's conceptions of mental illness./
Author:	Orleman, Elizabeth Mary.
Description:	112 p.
Notes:	Mentor: Louis Primavera.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-01B.
Subject:	Health Sciences, Mental Health. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3041632
ISBN:	0493549633

Peer discrimination and children's conceptions of mental illness.
Orleman, Elizabeth Mary.

Peer discrimination and children's conceptions of mental illness. - 112 p.

Mentor: Louis Primavera.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--St. John's University (New York), 2002.

The Child Social Distance Scale and the Children's Conceptions of Mental Illness Questionnaire were developed in this two-part exploratory descriptive study. Labeling Theory and Social Distance Theory provided a framework for designing and interpreting the Child Social Distance Scale. Eight-hundred and sixty-five, male and female, 6<super>th</super>, 8<super>th</super>, 10<super> th</super>, and 12<super>th</super> grade Catholic school students completed the scale. The scale was found to be a reliable and valid measure of children's willingness to discriminate against a peer with mental illness. The participants were required to respond to ten questions after reading a vignette describing a peer with depression, with schizophrenia, with ADHD, or with typical behavior. The data were submitted to two separate, two-factor, fixed effects, between subjects, randomized groups ANOVA designs. The factors were vignette type, gender, and grade. A total willingness to discriminate score served as the criterion variable. Alpha was set at .05. The analyses revealed that the participants were more willing to discriminate against the non-typical than the typical peer characters. Male participants were more willing than female participants to discriminate against all of the peer characters. The participants were more willing to discriminate against the peer character with schizophrenia than the typical, the depressed, or the ADHD peer characters. Sixth graders were more willing than 12<super>th</super> graders to discriminate against all of the peer characters. A sub-sample of the participants (<italic>n </italic> = 747) also completed the Children's Conceptions of Mental Illness Questionnaire. The Children's Conceptions of Mental Illness Questionnaire contains multiple and forced choice questions that elicit children's ideas about mental illness. The chi square statistic was employed to compare the sub-sample's responses by gender, grade, and vignette type. The issues addressed were recognition and labeling of non-typical behavior, the seriousness, the etiology, and the volition of the behavior, as well as contact with and dangerousness of persons with mental illness. The results are discussed in terms of the medical model vs. the social-environmental model of causation.

ISBN: 0493549633Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017693
Health Sciences, Mental Health.

Peer discrimination and children's conceptions of mental illness.
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