Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-16-2020
Abstract
Social-cognitive variables and religious attributions regardingmental illness were examined with a homogeneous sample of 180American Evangelical Christians, using a novel tool and the MentalHealth Knowledge Scale (MAKS). In the first trial, participants wererandomly assigned to one of two Bible verse priming conditions,which made salient willpower, faith and anxiety-reduction or thesuffering Christ. Priming effects revealed that those exposed tothe willpower-faith admonishment condition showed lowerstigma on the MAKS and stronger condition recognition scores.Participants who endorsed unilateral religious causes andsolutions to mental illness also presented with less knowledgeabout mental health disorders and lower condition recognition,but the latter was unrelated to positive views regardingreligiously-informed interventions. Females showed higher levelsof condition recognition and fewer stigmatising attitudes.
Recommended Citation
Freeman, Nahanni, "Attitudes towards mental illness in American Evangelical communities, supernaturalism, and stigmatisation" (2020). Faculty Publications - Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Program. 404.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/gscp_fac/404
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MENTAL HEALTH, RELIGION & CULTURE2020, VOL. 23, NO. 8, 691–702https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2020.1712591