Items 21 - 28 - *20. Society does not have a right to limit the freedom of people with mental illness ... The Fear/Avoidance score: the sum of items 1-8 divided by 8.
The Prejudice towards People with Mental Illness (PPMI) Scale The balanced 28-item scale was published in: Kenny, A., Bizumic, B., & Griffiths, K. M. (2018). The Prejudice towards People with Mental Illness (PPMI) scale: structure and validity. BMC Psychiatry, 18, 293. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1871-z The scale was used in: Kenny, A., & Bizumic, B. (2016). Learn and ACT: Changing prejudice towards people with mental illness using stigma reduction interventions. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 5, 178–185. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2016.06.004 Instructions: The following items deal with various ways you may think or feel about people with mental illness. A mental illness or disorder is a diagnosable illness which significantly interferes with an individual’s thoughts, emotions, behaviour, and/or social relationships. There are many different types of mental illness including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and personality disorders. Here we are interested in your views and beliefs about people with mental illness in general. Please read each question carefully and answer as honestly as you can, using the following scale: -4: Very strongly disagree -3: Strongly disagree -2: Disagree -1: Slightly disagree 0: Unsure/neutral 1: Slightly agree 2: Agree 3: Strongly agree 4: Very strongly agree
1. I would find it hard to talk to someone who has a mental illness *2. I would be just as happy to invite a person with mental illness into my home as I would anyone else *3. I would feel relaxed if I had to talk to someone who was mentally ill *4. I am not scared of people with mental illness *5. In general, it is easy to interact with someone who has mental illness 6. I would be less likely to become romantically involved with someone if I knew they were mentally ill 7. It is best to avoid people who have mental illness 8. I would feel unsafe being around someone who is mentally ill 9. The behaviour of people with mental illness is unpredictable *10. The behaviour of people with mental illness is just as predictable as that of people who are mentally healthy 11. In general, you cannot predict how people with mental illness will behave 12. People with mental illness often do unexpected things *13. I usually find people with mental illness to be consistent in their behavior *14. People with mental illness behave in ways that are foreseeable
*15. People who are mentally ill should be free to make their own decisions 16. People who are mentally ill should be forced to have treatment 17. Those who have serious mental illness should not be allowed to have children *18. People who are mentally ill should be allowed to live their life any way they want 19. People who are mentally ill need to be controlled by any means necessary *20. Society does not have a right to limit the freedom of people with mental illness *21. We, as a society, should be spending much more money on helping people with mental illness 22. People who are mentally ill are avoiding the difficulties of everyday life 23. People who develop mental illness are genetically inferior to other people 24. People with mental illness do not deserve our sympathy 25. People with mental illness should support themselves and not expect handouts *26. People who become mentally ill are not failures in life *27. We need to support and care for people who become mentally ill *28. Under certain circumstances, anyone can experience mental illness The scoring key: Please note: all items marked * are reverse-scored (e.g., -4 is scored as +4, -3 as +3, -2 as +2, etc.). Total Prejudice score: the sum of all items divided by 28. The Fear/Avoidance score: the sum of items 1-8 divided by 8. The Unpredictability score: the sum of items 9-14 divided by 6. The Authoritarianism score: the sum of items 15-20 divided by 6. The Malevolence score: the sum of items 21-28 divided by 8.
