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KMID : 0376619920170020109
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Seoul Journal of Psychiatry
1992 Volume.17 No. 2 p.109 ~ p.121
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The Opinions and Attitudes of Protestant Pastors in Seoul to Mental Disorder
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Abstract
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Despite of mental illness causing disability and misery, the psychiatric services in Korea have not been efficiently utilized mainly due to the undesirable attitudes toward mentally ill people. Protestant pastors as religious leader may be a good
opinion maker about the psychiatric treatment modality of mentally ill person of their sector, if proper education and information given. Thus, the attitudes of 139 protestant pastors (63 Pentecostals and 76 Presbyterins, Methodist, Baptist,
Holiness)
working in Seoul toward mental disorders were investigated.
1. The majority of the pastors have contacted with mentally ill persons of their sector, and most of the mentally ills whom they contact are the believery of their own churches and the majority of the pastors earned about mental illness from the
Bible.
2. The pastors think that multiple factors participated in causing mental illness and they have higher demonological orientation in explaining the religious factors.
3. The significant differences in the statistical analysis using chi-square test were found in some opinions of the Pentecostal pastors. The pastors of Pentecostal prefer faith healing to psychiatric treatment, and they rate the efficacy of
faith
healing higher than of psychiatric treatment.
The pentecostal pastors are relatively highly convinced that they have charisma of faith healing and also more attempt. Faith healing modes to the mentally ills.
4. We investigated whether some demographic characteristics play the confusing intermediate variables in statistacal differences. Age and education level show themselves as new variables. Younger the age, they relate mental illness less with
faith
states. And higher the education level, they prefer spychiatric treatment modes and rate efficacy of that more favorably.
5. 9 case vignettes of Mental retardation, Epilepsy, Brief pschotic episode, Mania, Psychotic depression, Schizophrenia, Neurotic depression, Antisocial personality disorder, and Alcoholism were described and 5 types of questions about each case
(gravity, prognosis, marriage prospects, possibility of living at home, and possibility of work) were given to the pastors to investigate their attitudes toward cases.
In their responses, Schizophrenia was most seriously considered and also most rejected, and Neurotic depression and Mania were most favorable and other cases took intermediate positions.
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