Table 2.

Association of contact with aspects of stigma

Dependent variable	Beta for mental illness experience	Standard error	N
Blame	−0.12***	0.03	676
Anger	−0.04*	0.02	680
Sympathy	0.06	0.05	673
Perceived persistence	0.06	0.05	663
Perceived seriousness	0.08*	0.04	676
Social distance, total	−0.10**	0.03	665
Social distance, casual	−0.08**	0.03	681
Social distance, intimate	−0.12**	0.04	655
Reproductive restriction	−0.05	0.04	677

N is the unweighted number of observations used in the analysis. Educational attainment, family income, age, gender, ethnicity (dummy variables for African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic, and “other”), political conservatism, eugenic concerns, belief in the importance of genetic factors in mental illness, vignette type, vignette diagnosis, and genetic attribution are controlled. Differences in sample size are due to missing data on dependent variables

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.0001