title: Public beliefs about the causes of mental disorders revisited.
abstract: When the lay public is asked to prioritize their causal beliefs for a vignette depicting either schizophrenia or depression, psychosocial causes are most popular for depression, but a large proportion of respondents prefers biological causes for schizophrenia. Recognition of the vignette as mental illness enhances the likelihood to endorse brain disease as a cause and reduces choices of certain psychosocial causes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany. georg.schomerus@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schomerus
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matschinger
authors.forename: Matthias C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Angermeyer
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D011639:Public Opinion; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires