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- Title
Television Viewing Habits and Their Relationship to Tolerance Toward People with Mental Illness.
- Authors
Granello, Darcy Haag; Pauley, Pamela S.
- Abstract
The electronic media has been criticized by mental health advocates as contributing to the stigma of mental illness. In this study, college-aged individuals who received their information about mental illness primarily from television were investigated to uncover the relationship of their television viewing habits and their tolerance toward mental illness. Results of trend analyses revealed that the number of hours of television watched per week was significantly and positively related to intolerance and that the type of television show watched accounted for significant variance in measures of tolerance toward people with mental illness. Implications are drawn for mental health counselors.
- Publication
Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 2000, Vol 22, Issue 2, p162
- ISSN
1040-2861
- Publication type
Academic Journal