Projected Social Distances from Mental Patient Related Items by Male and Female Volunteers and Nonvolunteers

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13670644
AutoresLeonore Loeb Adler (Adelphi University, autor correspondente), Jean G Graubert (Adelphi University)
Ano1975
Volume37
Fascículo2
Páginas515-521
Data de publicação1975-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1975.37.2.515
PMID1187931
OpenAlexW2020554334
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas9

A figure-placement procedure was used to measure projected social distances which students ( N = 179) perceived between themselves and several stimulus objects. Subjects ( N = 72) applying for a college volunteer program placed themselves significantly closer to “mental patient,” “retardate,” and related stimuli than did nonvolunteering subjects. No differences were found with control stimulus items. Although volunteers were similar to nonvolunteers, the critical difference between them was the projected distances they placed between themselves and “mental patient” and related stimuli. Dividing the data by sex showed that among nonvolunteers, males placed themselves significantly farther than females from “retardate,” “mental patient,” and to a lesser degree from “mental hospital.” For the male nonvolunteers, stimulus items, conveying a negative affect, elicited greater projected social distances than did the responses to stimulus objects conveying a positive or neutral affect

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