title: Insight into mental illness, self-stigma, and the family burden of parents of persons with a severe mental illness.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Parents of persons with severe mental illness (SMI) often experience burden due to the illness of their daughter or son. In the present study, the possibility that parents' self-stigma moderates the relationship between the parents' insight into a daughter's or son's illness and the parents' sense of burden was investigated.
  
  
  METHODS
  Levels of insight into a daughter's or son's mental illness, parent self-stigma, and parent burden of 127 parents of persons with an SMI were assessed. Regression analysis was used to test the putative moderating role of parents' self-stigma.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Self-stigma was found to mediate rather than moderate the relationship between insight and burden. Accordingly, parent insight into the mental illness of a daughter or son appears to increase parent burden because it increases parent self-stigma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The implications of these findings for practice, theory, and future research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. hasoni@mail.biu.ac.il
authors.forename: Ilanit
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hasson-Ohayon
authors.forename: Itamar
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: Shlomo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kravetz
authors.forename: Adi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vollanski-Narkis
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Roe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013240:Stereotyping; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires