Enquete Sur L'humanitarisme ou L'autoritarisme des Employes D'un Grand Hopital Psychiatrique *

Abstract

The staff of a large psychiatric hospital were investigated concerning their attitude toward mental patients. This was done by means of a stochastic transversal survey. A random sample (15%), stratified according to professional activity, was reached by one interviewer using a French translation and adaptation of the “Composite Mental Illness and Social Attitudes Scales.” With analyses of variance and analyses of correlation significant factors influencing attitudes were identified: age, education, type of work, marital and social status. For the whole population the humanitarian index was found predominant over the custodial index.