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Results

The attitude towards the mentally ill is better nowadays than several decades ago. This is probably because of the deep changes that have occurred in our society which has led those people who previously had a stereotyped attitude and were prejudiced to become more diversified in their opinions with full knowledge of the facts because of better information. Its factor synthesis explains 32.9% of the variation. The factors resulting from this work are: a) negative attitude toward the mentally ill (explains 14% variation); b) interpersonal/social etiology (explains 7.2% variation); c) authoritarianism (accounting for 4.8% variation); d) restrictiveness (explains 3.1% variation), and e) prejudice (explains 3% variation).

Conclusions

The population has a less magical and prejudicial and a more informed idea of mental illness. Thus the factorial contents are much more disseminated. Consequently, these factors explain a relatively low percentage of variation.