Nature, Nurture, Neither, Nor: Black-White Differences in Beliefs about the Causes and Appropriate Treatment of Mental Illness

By Jason Schnittker, J. Freese, Brian Powell. 2000

187 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Health

1. S. Shostak
2. Matthew O. Hunt
3. J. Freese
4. M. Angermeyer
5. M. Addis

In Social Psychology

1. S. Shostak
2. Matthew O. Hunt
3. J. Freese
4. M. Angermeyer
5. M. Addis
6. Sandra Dietrich
7. B. Schulze

In Sociology and Political Science

1. S. Shostak
2. Matthew O. Hunt
3. J. Freese
4. M. Angermeyer
5. M. Addis
6. Sandra Dietrich
7. D. Vogel

Citations in the corpus

• Public beliefs about and attitudes towards people with mental illness: a review of population studies (2006, background): “The same applies to the analysis of time trends (20, 24, 25, 58, 68, 87), cross-cultural comparisons of beliefs and attitudes (23, 40, 42, 44, 46, 47, 49, 51, 53, 54, 66, 70, 71, 83, 105, 111) and the evaluation of interventions aimed at improving knowledge of mental disorders and reducing stigmatiz”
• Genetics and Social Inquiry (2009, methodology): “Using vignette data from the General Social Survey, Schnittker et al. (2000) found that blacks are less likely than whites to endorse genetic explanations of mental illness (Schnittker et al. 2000, pp. 1109, 1112).”
• Effects of Etiology on Perceived Helpfulness of Treatments for Depression (2003, result): “…are systematically related to treatment beliefs (Furnham & Manning, 1997; Furnham & Taylor, 1990; House, 1981; Kim-Goh, 1993; Luk & Bond, 1992; Mulatu, 1999; Schnittker et al., 2000), our results more generally point to the importance of etiological information in treatments’ perceived helpfulness.”
• African American, Hispanic, and White Beliefs about Black/White Inequality, 1977-2004 (2007, background): “…alongside evidence challenging an “assumption of similarity” regarding the determinants of beliefs and attitudes across race/ethnic lines (Hunt 1996; Schnittker et al. 2000; Steelman and Powell 1993), it is important to examine possible race/ethnic differences in the determinants of beliefs about…”