RT Article
T1 Attitudes towards mental illness in American Evangelical communities, supernaturalism, and stigmatisation
JF Mental health, religion & culture
VO 23
IS 8
SP 691
OP 702
A1 Freeman, Nahanni
A1 Baldwin, Isaac
A2 Baldwin, Isaac
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1839007052
AB Social-cognitive variables and religious attributions regarding mental illness were examined with a homogeneous sample of 180 American Evangelical Christians, using a novel tool and the Mental Health Knowledge Scale (MAKS). In the first trial, participants were randomly assigned to one of two Bible verse priming conditions, which made salient willpower, faith and anxiety-reduction or the suffering Christ. Priming effects revealed that those exposed to the willpower-faith admonishment condition showed lower stigma on the MAKS and stronger condition recognition scores. Participants who endorsed unilateral religious causes and solutions to mental illness also presented with less knowledge about mental health disorders and lower condition recognition, but the latter was unrelated to positive views regarding religiously-informed interventions. Females showed higher levels of condition recognition and fewer stigmatising attitudes.
K1 Religious priming
K1 aetiological attributions
K1 mental illness attributions
K1 mental illness stigma
DO 10.1080/13674676.2020.1712591