Aspects of perceived stigma: The Stigma Inventory for Mental Illness, its development, latent structure and psychometric properties

The aim of this study was to develop a new brief and easy to administer self-stigma scale for mental illness as well as to assess the correlations between self-stigma and psychopathology of chronic schizophrenic patients.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - April 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Maria Veroniki Karidi, Despoina Vasilopoulou, Eugenia Savvidou, Silia Vitoratou, Andreas D. Rabavilas, Constantinos N. Stefanis Source Type: research