Table 4.

Item Loadings from Confirmatory Factor Analysis.

Factor	Standardized Estimate
Factor 1: Attitudes of health care providers towards people with mental illness
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)	0.539
Despite my professional beliefs, I have negative reactions towards people who have mental illness. (12 of 20)	0.325
There is little I can do to help people with mental illness. (13 of 20)	0.508
More than half of people with mental illness don’t try hard enough to get better. (14 of 20)	0.469
Health care providers do not need to be advocates for people with mental illness. (18 of 20)	0.263
I struggle to feel compassion for a person with a mental illness. (20 of 20)	0.446
Factor 2: Disclosure/help seeking
If I were under treatment for a mental illness I would not disclose this to any of my colleagues. (4 of 20)	0.338
I would see myself as weak if I had a mental illness and could not fix it myself. (6 of 20)	0.573
I would be reluctant to seek help if I had a mental illness. (7 of 20)	0.519
If I had a mental illness, I would tell my friends. (10r of 20)	0.461
Factor 3: Social distance
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.  (3r of 20)	0.439
Employers should hire a person with a managed mental illness if he/she is the best person for the job. (8r of 20)	0.382
I would still go to a physician if I knew that the physician had been treated for a mental illness. (9r of 20)	0.709
I would not want a person with a mental illness, even if it were appropriately managed, to work with children. (17 of 20)	0.591
I would not mind if a person with a mental illness lived next door to me. (19r of 20)	0.55
Covariances
Factor 1–factor 2	0.526
Factor 1–factor 3	0.814
Factor 2–factor 3	0.388

Note. r = reverse coded.