- This article is the descriptive research study which has been attempted to recognize the stigma on mentally disabled of young people because it was understood to settle the stigma which hinders the social supporting basis is the important issue, and even currently the number of the hospitalized patients is tried to be decreased and the chronic troubled patients are also tried to be reduced, and additionally the mental health law was enacted in 1995, and then the basis for the retum-into-society, economical benefit, and employment promotion for disabled people were arranged and carried into effect.
- As for the data collection, the interview survey materials were distributed in the subject school from 11 March 2002 to 16 March 2002 after directly visiting the school, and those interview survey materials were collected just after they were finished.
- AS for the tool which estimates the content and degree of the stigma on the mentally disabled people, the format which adopted the negative attitude item of CAMI(Community Attitude Toward the Mental Illness) that was developed by Tayler and Dear(1981) as the basis and format which Kim Hyo-Jung(2000) revised and supplemented for the interview survey material which was developed by Wahl and Harman(1989) were used. The advanced research was performed subjecting 12 highschool students, and the reliance coefficient, Cronbach' a was .7218. The Cronbach' a of the finally used tool was .8019.
- The collected data was analyzed statistically by using SPSS program. The difference between the content and degree on the stigma according to the general characteristics of the research subject people was analyzed by t-test, One-way ANOVA. Additionally, as for the recognition on the effect which influences the mentally disabled people and family of the mentally disabled people of the stigma, and the settlement way for the stigma factor and stigma itself, the real number and percentage were calculated.



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