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KMID : 1151020210490040079
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Mental Health & Social Work
2021 Volume.49 No. 4 p.79 ~ p.102
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An Investigation for the Influence of People’s Contact Experiences with Mental Patients on Their Prejudice: Pursuing the Mediating Effect of a Sense of Social distance
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Ho Gyu-Hyun
Jung Hwi-Kwan
Jeon Ye-Sol
Song Min-Hae
Shimamori Sayuki
Yu Hyun-Jae
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Abstract
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The present study aimed to provide the reference for finding the ways not only to reduce social prejudice but also to improve the perception toward mental patients based upon the investigation to figure out the possible influence of the contact quality people experience with the patients. In order to accomplish the goal above, this study performed the survey in which total 300 people participated between September 8th and 13th in 2021, asking about the experience of the contact with the mental patients. More specifically, the participants were asked in the survey to answer their contact experience, the information of the patients they contacted with, a sense of social distance they felt, and possible prejudice they had toward the mental illness and patients. In the results, the researchers reported that there were some differences in terms of the level of prejudice toward the mental patients based upon people’s different contact experience with the patients. In addition, it was also found that a sense of social distance and people’s prejudice toward mental patients were influenced by their quality of the contact experience with mental patients. Also, it was possible to discover that a sense of social distance fully mediated the relationship between people’s direct experience with mental patients and the prejudice they had toward the patients. Lastly, this study discussed the suggestions for the issues regarding the ways to reduce the people’s prejudice toward the mental illness and the patients. The researchers believed that the insight from this study could be very meaningful, since it was the first time to analyze the possible prejudice people could have using the theory of contact.
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KEYWORD
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Contact Experience with Mental Patients, Quality of Contact, People’s Prejudice Toward Mental Patients, Sense of Social Distance
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