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Discriminatory attitudes to people with intellectual disability or mental health difficulty

Centre for Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Research, Chinese University of Hong Kong, ccter{at}cuhk.edu.hk

Chau-kiu Cheung

Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, ssjacky{at}cityu.edu.hk

The integration of people with intellectual disability and mental health difficulty in the community is an issue in Hong Kong because it has encountered public resistance. Understanding the public’s discrimination against them is of theoretical and practical concern. This survey of 822 residents in Hong Kong examined associations of the public’s personal interaction, education, age and sex with its discriminatory attitudes.

International Social Work, Vol. 42, No. 4, 431-444 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/002087289904200405


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