title: The patient rejection scale: cross-cultural consistency.
abstract: The Patient Rejection Scale, which was developed to assess rejecting feelings of family members toward mental patients, was administered to a sample of 80 relatives living with schizophrenic patients in the Federal Republic of Germany. In spite of the cross-cultural differences involved, the response distributions of the German sample and a New York City sample of families were almost identical. The findings are discussed in the context of "expressed emotions" research.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004644:Emotions; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology