Table 2.

Percentage (and 95% CI) of Japanese and Australian respondents giving each cause as "very likely" or "likely" for the person described in the vignette

Cause	Depression Vignette	Depression/Suicidal Vignette	Early Schizophrenia Vignette	Chronic Schizophrenia Vignette
Virus or infection
Japanese	6.2 (4.1–8.3)	6.6 (4.4–8.8)	7.2 (4.9–9.5)	7.2 (4.9–9.5)
Australian	50.5 (47.1–54.0)	41.4 (38.2–44.7)	32.1 (29.0–35.4)	33.6 (30.7–36.6)
Allergy
Japanese	10.2 (7.5–12.9)	11.4 (8.6–14.2)	12.6 (9.7–15.5)	9.4 (6.8–12.0)
Australian	44.9 (41.4–48.5)	37.6 (34.3–41.0)	31.5 (28.4–34.7)	28.4 (25.5–31.5)
Day-to-day problems
Japanese	93.6 (91.4–95.8)	91.8 (89.4–94.2)	92.0 (89.6–94.4)	91.2 (88.7–93.7)
Australian	96.8 (95.2–97.9)	95.7 (94.2–96.9)	89.6 (87.6–91.2)	86.6 (84.3–88.7)
Death of someone close
Japanese	79.8 (76.3–83.3)	81.4 (78.0–84.8)	73.4 (69.5–77.3)	74.0 (70.1–77.9)
Australian	96.3 (94.6–97.5)	94.8 (93.1–96.0)	87.4 (85.2–89.4)	83.3 (80.7–85.6)
Traumatic event
Japanese	82.6 (79.3–85.9)	79.6 (76.1–83.1)	78.2 (74.6–81.8)	80.8 (77.3–84.3)
Australian	93.9 (91.8–95.4)	92.7 (90.7–94.2)	86.5 (84.1–88.6)	82.8 (80.2–85.1)
Problems from childhood
Japanese	81.0 (77.5–84.5)	82.0 (78.6–85.4)	88.2 (85.4–91.0)	89.0 (86.2–91.8)
Australian	91.3 (89.2–93.1)	95.0 (93.2–96.3)	90.8 (88.8–92.5)	91.4 (89.4–93.0)
Inherited or genetic
Japanese	34.6 (30.4–38.8)	34.0 (29.8–38.2)	34.2 (30.0–38.4)	43.8 (39.4–48.2)
Australian	68.0 (64.8–71.0)	68.4 (65.3–71.3)	70.0 (66.8–73.0)	73.7 (70.6–76.6)
Nervous person
Japanese	81.4 (78.0–84.8)	77.4 (73.7–81.1)	74.0 (70.1–77.9)	81.8 (78.4–85.2)
Australian	67.9 (64.6–70.9)	65.6 (62.3–68.7)	58.1 (54.4–61.7)	56.9 (53.6–60.2)
Weakness of character
Japanese	73.6 (69.7–77.5)	69.2 (65.1–73.3)	73.4 (69.5–77.3)	82.0 (78.6–85.4)
Australian	43.0 (39.7–46.3)	46.1 (42.8–49.3)	39.7 (36.5–42.9)	35.1 (31.6–38.8)