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Table 2 Four factor item weights
| ITEMS (paraphrased) | Weights |
|---|---|
| Factor1 Community treatment and Biopsychosocial causation | |
| Increased spending on mental health services is not a waste of money. | 0.850 |
| People with mental illness deserve our sympathy. | 0.845 |
| We have a responsibility to provide the best possible care for people with mental illness. | 0.790 |
| No-one has the right to exclude people with mental illness from their neighborhood. | 0.790 |
| Locating mental health facilities in a residential area doesn't downgrade the neighborhood. | 0.785 |
| We need to adopt a far more tolerant attitude toward people with mental illness in our society. | 0.760 |
| Anyone with mental illness should be given responsibility. | 0.733 |
| People with mental health problems should have the same rights to a job as anyone else. | 0.722 |
| Virtually anyone can become mentally ill. | 0.706 |
| Residents have nothing to fear from people coming to their neighborhood to obtain mental health services. | 0.684 |
| Mental health services should be provided through community based facilities as far as possible. | 0.650 |
| The best therapy for many people with mental illness is to be part of a normal community. | 0.535 |
| It is not frightening to think of people with mental problems living in residential neighborhoods. | 0.524 |
| Mental hospitals are an outdated means of treating people with mental illness. | -0.562 |
| Traumatic event or shock can cause mental illness | 0.500 |
| Biological factors (other than brain disease or genetics) can cause mental illness. | 0.490 |
| Drug or Alcohol misuse can cause mental illness. | 0.462 |
| Genetic inheritance can cause mental illness. | 0.437 |
| Factor2 Socializing | |
| If somebody had been a former psychiatric patient, I would have them as a friend. | 0.603 |
| If somebody who had been a former patient came to live next door to me, I would visit them. | 0.518 |
| In interacting with someone with mental illness, I could maintain a friendship. | 0.514 |
| I would invite somebody who suffered from mental illness into my home. | 0.490 |
| I would occasionally greet somebody who had been a former patient and came to live next door to me. | 0.455 |
| I would not object to having mentally ill people living in my neighborhood. | 0.437 |
| I would have casual conversations with neighbors who had suffered from mental illness. | 0.423 |
| I would be willing to work with somebody with a mental illness. | 0.422 |
| Factor3 Specific interactions | |
| In interacting with someone with mental illness, you were not upset or disturbed about working on the same job. | 0.471 |
| Physical abuse cannot cause mental illness. | 0.465 |
| People with mental illness are not a public nuisance. | 0.426 |
| People with mental illness are not dangerous because of violent behavior. | 0.423 |
| In interacting with someone with mental illness, I would not be unwilling to share a room. | 0.414 |
| You would not avoid conversations with neighbors who had suffered from mental illness. | 0.404 |
| Factor4 Disbelief in witchcraft | |
| God's punishment cannot cause mental illness. | 0.652 |
| Someone puts a curse on you cannot cause mental illness. | 0.569 |
| Witchcraft cannot cause mental illness. | 0.555 |
| Possession by evil spirits cannot cause mental illness. | 0.543 |
