Table 2.
Factor structure in the 15-item version, n = 1305
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Factor
1
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Item-total correlation | Alpha if deleted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
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Factor 1:
Attitudes of health care providers towards people with mental illness
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| I am more comfortable helping a person who has a physical illness than I am helping a person who has a mental illness. (1 of 20) |
0.6057 |
0.2379 |
−0.0771 |
0.3689 |
0.7787 |
| Despite my professional beliefs, I have negative reactions towards people who have mental illness. (12 of 20) |
0.6082 |
0.1945 |
0.1217 |
0.4397 |
0.7694 |
| There is little I can do to help people with mental illness. (13 of 20) |
0.7111 |
0.0373 |
0.1367 |
0.4433 |
0.7704 |
| More than half of people with mental illness don’t try hard enough to get better. (14 of 20) |
0.5106 |
0.0421 |
0.2673 |
0.3967 |
0.7743 |
| Health care providers do not need to be advocates for people with mental illness. (18 of 20) |
0.4538 |
−0.1000 |
0.3383 |
0.3214 |
0.7793 |
| I struggle to feel compassion for a person with a mental illness. (20 of 20) |
0.6100 |
0.0573 |
0.2551 |
0.4449 |
0.7702 |
|
Factor 2:
Disclosure/help-seeking
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| If I were under treatment for a mental illness I would not disclose this to any of my colleagues. (Item 4 of 20) |
−0.0294 |
0.7514 |
0.1150 |
0.3252 |
0.7805 |
| I would see myself as weak if I had a mental illness and could not fix it myself. (6 of 20) |
0.3536 |
0.6001 |
0.0312 |
0.4381 |
0.7699 |
| I would be reluctant to seek help if I had a mental illness. (7 of 20) |
0.2961 |
0.6152 |
0.0270 |
0.4175 |
0.7721 |
| If I had a mental illness, I would tell my friends. (10 of 20)2 |
−0.0015 |
0.7486 |
0.1528 |
0.3769 |
0.7758 |
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Factor 3:
Social Distance
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| If a colleague with whom I work told me they had a managed mental illness, I would be as willing to work with him/her. (3 of 20)2 |
0.0492 |
0.0591 |
0.6195 |
0.2995 |
0.7809 |
| Employers should hire a person with a managed mental illness if he/she is the best person for the job. (8 of 20)2 |
0.0762 |
0.0612 |
0.6886 |
0.3569 |
0.7774 |
| I would still go to a physician if I knew that the physician had been treated for a mental illness. (9 of 20)2 |
0.1159 |
0.1536 |
0.7083 |
0.4244 |
0.7725 |
| I would not want a person with a mental illness, even if it were appropriately managed, to work with children. (17 of 20) |
0.2777 |
0.2553 |
0.4954 |
0.4618 |
0.7695 |
| I would not mind if a person with a mental illness lived next door to me. (19 of 20)2 | 0.2047 | 0.1176 | 0.5881 | 0.4044 | 0.7736 |
1rotated factor loading using orthogonal varimax from principal component factor (pcf); 2reverse scored.
Note: Bartlett’s Test of Spehericity (χ2 = 3969.47, p < 0.001) and a Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin was 0.841; alpha = 0.79 (0.68 for Factor 1, 0.67 for Factor 2, and 0.68 for Factor 3); Total variance explained 45.3% (16.2% Factor 1, 15.2% Factor 2, and 13.9% Factor 3); Eigenvalues for the three factors were 2.44, 2.28, and 2.08; *bold figures show highest factor loading.