Factor* | Alpha if deleted | |||
1 | 2 | 3 | ||
Factor 1: attitudes towards help-seeking and people with mental illness | ||||
I would be reluctant to seek help if I had a mental illness (item 7). | 0.534 | −0.035 | 0.459 | 0.733 |
Despite my professional beliefs, I have negative reactions towards people who have mental illness (item 12). | 0.458 | 0.256 | 0.101 | 0.719 |
There is little I can do to help people with mental illness (item 13). | 0.639 | −0.052 | −0.054 | 0.727 |
More than half of people with mental illness don’t try hard enough to get better (item 14). | 0.638 | 0.007 | −0.172 | 0.724 |
I would not want a person with a mental illness, even if it were appropriately managed, to work with children (item 17). | 0.382 | 0.361 | 0.012 | 0.716 |
Healthcare providers do not need to be advocates for people with mental illness (item 18). | 0.582 | 0.077 | −0.147 | 0.723 |
I struggle to feel compassion for a person with a mental illness (item 20). | 0.482 | 0.208 | −0.142 | 0.721 |
Factor 2: social distance | ||||
If a colleague with whom I work told me they had a managed mental illness, I would be as willing to work with him/her2 (item 3). | 0.016 | 0.651 | −0.144 | 0.732 |
Employers should hire a person with a managed mental illness if he/she is the best person for the job2 (item 8). | −0.002 | 0.489 | −0.255 | 0.740 |
I would still go to a physician if I knew that the physician had been treated for a mental illness2 (item 9). | −0.146 | 0.663 | −0.013 | 0.740 |
I would not mind if a person with a mental illness lived next door to me2 (item 19). | 0.049 | 0.568 | 0.053 | 0.731 |
Factor 3: disclosure | ||||
If I were under treatment for a mental illness I would not disclose this to any of my colleagues (item 4). | 0.275 | 0.024 | 0.666 | 0.747 |
I would see myself as weak if I had a mental illness and could not fix it myself (item 6). | 0.486 | 0.000 | 0.541 | 0.735 |
If I had a mental illness, I would tell my friends2 (item 10). | −0.02 | 0.296 | 0.511 | 0.752 |
Highest factor loading of each item across the three factors are highlighted in bold.
*Using exploratory structural equation mode; l2 reverse scored; items are numbered following the original scale from Modgill et al37.