[The German version of the Community-Attitudes-Toward-the-Mentally-Ill (CAMI) inventory].
OBJECTIVE
The German version of the Community Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill (CAMI) inventory developed by Taylor and Dear (1981) is presented.


METHODS
The questionnaire was applied in a mail survey which was conducted in 3 small towns in Germany.


RESULTS
At the item level surprisingly positive attitudes toward people with mental illness were found. The factor analysis with the 40 Likert-scaled items yielded 4 dimensions (exclusion, integration, benevolence, social control) which account for 46 % of the total variance. As in previous studies, age had a negative effect and the level of education a positive effect on public attitudes, while the gender of the respondents had only a small effect. Familiarity with mental illness did not have an effect as important as in previous studies.


CONCLUSIONS
There is a close correspondence between the German version and the original version of the CAMI-inventory.
Angermeyer
Matthias C
MC
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie am Universitätsklinikum Leipzig.
Heiss
Stephanie
S
Kirschenhofer
Sabine
S
Ladinser
Edwin
E
Löffler
Walter
W
Schulze
Beate
B
Swiridoff
Michael
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D011639:Public Opinion; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors