The power of the label and the role of tightness in mental illness stigma.

• Main Author: Tan, Jayne Sarah En Min.
• Other Authors: Wan Ching
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49157
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The role of the mental illness label in eliciting negative attitudes towards mental illness is central to this research. To expand the current understanding of mental illness stigma, the cultural dimension of tightness-looseness was explored and implicated in stigmatizing the mentally ill. In orde...