Changing stigmatizing attitudes to mental health via education and contact with embodied conversational agents

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Highlights:

• Improving mental health (MH) literacy of social network could assist individuals with MH conditions.

• 245 students received contact or education interventions via videos or Embodied Conversational Agents.

• Interventions reduced positive and negative volitional stigma but not traditional stigma (social distance).

• Contact reduced positive volitional stigma more than education for men.

• Both media aided recognition and can change attitudes to stigmatized conditions.

摘要

•Improving mental health (MH) literacy of social network could assist individuals with MH conditions.•245 students received contact or education interventions via videos or Embodied Conversational Agents.•Interventions reduced positive and negative volitional stigma but not traditional stigma (social distance).•Contact reduced positive volitional stigma more than education for men.•Both media aided recognition and can change attitudes to stigmatized conditions.

论文关键词:Embodied conversational agents,Stigmatizing attitudes,Anorexia nervosa,Traditional stigma,Volitional stigma

论文评审过程:Received 20 December 2016, Revised 17 March 2017, Accepted 22 March 2017, Available online 5 April 2017, Version of Record 8 April 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.03.071