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Differences in Attitudes Toward Mental Health: A Cross-religious Comparison

Boling, McKenna
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1719571330250561

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2024, Bachelor of Arts, Wittenberg University, Psychology.
This study focuses on the possibility of differing attitudes toward mental health between Buddhists, Muslims, and undergraduate students and how knowledge and framing effects might play a role in these attitudes. Participants were recruited for an online survey containing three distinct measures of mental health literacy, religious coping techniques, and attitudes toward mental health. Four tests found no significant differences in mental health literacy or attitudes between Buddhists and Muslims, and video framing was not found to affect mental health attitudes regardless of the participant’s knowledge level, and Muslims tended to incorporate religious coping techniques much more frequently than Buddhists and the undergraduate sample. This study suggests that religious identity and coping preferences may be important to consider for the future of culturally competent therapeutic services.
Lauren Crane (Advisor)
Stephanie Little (Committee Member)
Travis Proctor (Committee Member)
46 p.
Mental Health; Psychology; Religion
mental health; Buddhism; Islam; Buddhists; Muslims; attitudes; coping techniques; mental illness; survey

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  • Boling, M. (2024). Differences in Attitudes Toward Mental Health: A Cross-religious Comparison [Undergraduate thesis, Wittenberg University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1719571330250561

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Boling, McKenna. Differences in Attitudes Toward Mental Health: A Cross-religious Comparison. 2024. Wittenberg University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1719571330250561.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Boling, McKenna. "Differences in Attitudes Toward Mental Health: A Cross-religious Comparison." Undergraduate thesis, Wittenberg University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1719571330250561

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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