@article{oai:u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp:02015974,
 author = {Naka, Koichi and Oda, Melanie and Randall, Maxine and Inoue, Shimpei and Ishizu, Hiroshi},
 issue = {4},
 journal = {琉球医学会誌 = Ryukyu Medical Journal},
 month = {},
 note = {A cross-cultural comparative study examining attitudes of nurses and high school teachers in Canada and Japan toward mental illness was undertaken. The population sampled included 76 Canadian nurses and 77 high school teachers, 187 0kinawan nurses and 179 high school teachers, and 98 Kochi nurses and 107 high school teachers. A self-administered questionnaire, which included the semantic differential, attitudes toward mental illness, and social distance scales as well as case vignettes, was utilized to ascertain the knowledge and attitudes regarding mental illness and the acceptance or rejection of the-mentally ill. The main findings of this investigation were: 1) the Japanese subjects seemed comparatively less able to discriminate differences in causality, diagnosis, and prognosis of the various psychiatric disorders described. 2) the Japanese, whether from Okinawa or Kochi, desired a greater distance than the Canadians from the mentally ill. 3) the Canadians tended to have a more positive realistic attitude toward the mentally ill. A careful assessment of these differences in attitudes from the social and cultural context in which they originate provides some insight into how a more realistic and supportive attitude toward the mentally ill might be instituted or improved in all three cultural groups investigated. Our findings point not only to the importance of recognizing the influence of culture on attitudes toward mental illness, but also to the importance of the effect of cultural variables on the interrelationship between attitudes, education and service delivery., 論文},
 pages = {165--172},
 title = {[原著］Attitudes toward mental illness : A cross-cultural comparative study of nurses and high school teachers in Canada and Japan},
 volume = {15},
 year = {1995}
}