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Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify attitudes of middle managers toward
employees with psychological problems and to determine factors affecting their attitudes.
Methods: A questionnaire with Community Attitudes Toward Mentally Ill (CAMI) scales
was administered to 161 middle managers working in small and medium-sized enterprises
based in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province.
Results: There are four separate subscales on the CAMI. Mean score for authoritarianism
was 35.0±4.4, benevolence 23.0±4.8, social restrictiveness 32.3±4.9 and community mental
health ideology 27.2±5.1. According to multiple regression analysis, middle managers with no
experience of learning mental illness through mass media or higher levels of depression
symptom were more authoritative and less benevolent towards employees with psychological
problems. The experience of meeting a patient with mental problem contribute to positive
attitudes toward people with mental illnesses in social restrictiveness subscale and community
mental health ideology subscale among CAMI.
Conclusion: This study suggests that experience of having patients with mental problems and
information on psychological problems will have great influence on attitudes of middle managers
toward employees with psychological problems.
It might be important to help middle manager manage their depression because their
depression also affects their attitudes toward employees with psychological problems.