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A cross-national study of the stigmatization of severe psychiatric illness: historical review, methodological considerations and development of the questionnaire.

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A cross-national study of the stigmatization of severe psychiatric illness: historical review, methodological considerations and development of the questionnaire.

Littlewood, Roland ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3218-3350, Jadhav, Sushrut ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5325-8687 and Ryder, Andrew G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3041-7168 (2007) A cross-national study of the stigmatization of severe psychiatric illness: historical review, methodological considerations and development of the questionnaire. Transcultural Psychiatry, 44 (2). pp. 171-202. (In Press)

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Abstract

Despite their potential significance for public policy and health provision in different societies, popular conceptualizations of and social responses to severe psychiatric illness remain relatively unexamined. Two general research procedures may be identified: (1) the anthropological approach uses ethnographic methods to look at explicit categorizations, and (2) the sociological approach employs quantitative survey methods to examine the public 'stigma' of psychiatric illness. This article reviews methodological and conceptual approaches to the study of stigma and describes the development of an ethnographically grounded questionnaire to examine 'stigmatization' from data in different cultures. The difficulties of achieving cross-cultural comparability of meaning are discussed and the psychometric properties of the instrument are presented.

Divisions:Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Psychology
Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Authors:Littlewood, Roland and Jadhav, Sushrut and Ryder, Andrew G.
Journal or Publication:Transcultural Psychiatry
Date:2007
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):10.1177/1363461507077720
Keywords:ethnographic method, mental illness, stigmatization
ID Code:989991
Deposited By: Julie Quadrio
Deposited On:22 Dec 2021 22:58
Last Modified:22 Dec 2021 22:58
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