Factor structure and reliability of the Greek version of Attitudes Towards Mentally Ill Offenders (ΑΤΜΙΟ) Scale in a general population sample.

Q3 Medicine
Psychiatrike = Psychiatriki Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Epub Date: 2023-11-14 DOI:10.22365/jpsych.2023.025
Sophia Martinaki, Kimon Athanasiadis, Chara Tzavara, Veatriki Ntelidaki
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Mentally ill offenders constitute a group with a unique set of characteristics since they are doubly stigmatized by both their mental illness and the offence they have committed. The coexistence of these two circumstances significantly heightens negative public attitudes towards these people. The group of mentally ill offenders has been shown to elicit more stigmatic attitudes than offenders without a mental health condition. Nevertheless, research on stigma towards mentally ill offenders is rather limited, while the number of psychometric tools used to measure this stigma is even smaller compared to the number of relevant tools assessing mental illness stigma. The purpose of this study was to explore the attitudes towards mentally ill offenders in a Greek sample in terms of demographic characteristics, and at the same time to assess the psychometric properties of a specialized tool on stigma towards this patient group, namely the Attitudes Towards Mentally Ill Offenders (ΑΤΜΙΟ) scale in Greek. The study included 1031 participants from the general population who completed an online questionnaire on sociodemographic data as well as the ATMIO scale. The scale's structural validity was tested on the basis of the exploratory factor analysis after Quartimax rotation, and the internal relevance of its factors recorded a Cronbach's alpha value of more than 0.7, both for the whole scale and its individual factors. It was shown that more negative stereotypes towards mentally ill offenders were correlated with less compassion and less desire for their rehabilitation, with stronger belief and conviction that they represent a danger to the community, with less diminished responsibility, and a lot fewer positive attitudes in general. Women, older people, individuals with a lower education level and participants with children were found to hold more negative attitudes. The ATMIO scale translated in Greek is the first tool to measure attitudes towards mentally ill offenders in the country and shows satisfactory internal consistency and interpretation of its four-factor structure. It is a comprehensible and easy-to-complete scale, which can become a reliable tool to record attitudes towards mentally ill offenders also in our country.

希腊文版精神疾病罪犯态度量表(ΑΤΜΙΟ)在一般人群样本中的因素结构和可靠性。
患有精神疾病的罪犯构成了一个具有独特特征的群体,因为他们的精神疾病和他们所犯的罪行使他们受到双重的侮辱。这两种情况的共存大大加剧了公众对这些人的负面态度。研究表明,有精神疾病的罪犯比没有精神疾病的罪犯更容易招致轻蔑的态度。然而,对精神疾病罪犯的耻辱的研究相当有限,而用于测量这种耻辱的心理测量工具的数量比评估精神疾病耻辱的相关工具的数量更少。本研究的目的是在人口统计学特征方面探讨希腊样本中对精神病罪犯的态度,同时评估对该患者群体的污名化专门工具的心理测量特性,即对精神病罪犯的态度(ΑΤΜΙΟ)希腊语量表。该研究包括来自普通人群的1031名参与者,他们完成了一份关于社会人口统计数据和ATMIO量表的在线问卷。经Quartimax旋转后,在探索性因子分析的基础上,对量表的结构效度进行了检验,量表各因子的内部相关性,无论是整体量表还是个别因子的Cronbach’s alpha值均大于0.7。研究表明,对精神疾病罪犯的负面刻板印象越多,对他们康复的同情和渴望就越少,对他们对社会构成威胁的信念和信念越强,责任感越少,总体上积极态度也越少。研究发现,女性、老年人、受教育程度较低的人以及有孩子的参与者持有更多的消极态度。希腊文翻译的ATMIO量表是衡量该国对精神病罪犯态度的第一个工具,并显示出令人满意的内部一致性和对其四因素结构的解释。这是一个易于理解和易于完成的量表,也可以成为一个可靠的工具,记录对精神疾病罪犯的态度在我国。
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