| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄師範大學 === 復建諮商研究所 === 99 === The purpose of this research was to explore the newspaper reports on the persons with psychiatric disabilities by the following aspects: reporting models, reporting subjects, news sources, reporting tones, the presentation of psychiatric characteristics, and the reporting quality. The data was calculated by χ analysis on SPSS program.
The results of this research were listed in the following. First of all, in reporting numbers, there were not the significant difference in three phases. Second, the distribution of local news in observation or enforcement phase was significantly less than those in pre-revision phase. Third, the distribution of medicine and health news in observation or enforcement phase was significantly more than those in pre-revision phase. Fourth, in reporting presentation, there was the significant difference in three phases, and pure news pages was mainly presented. Fifth, in reporting subjects, the distribution of violent/abnormal/self-injured behavior, murdered event, right and advocacy, and policy and medicine in observation or enforcement phase were not significantly less than those in pre-revision phase. Sixth, in news sources, there was the significant difference in the reporter/media/author, foreign news, and multi-news in three phases. Seventh, the distribution of negative reporting tones in observation or enforcement phase was not significantly less than those in pre-revision phase. Eighth, the distribution of presentation of negative psychiatric characteristics in observation or enforcement phase was not significantly less than those in pre-revision phase. Ninth, generally, the distribution of reporting faults in observation and enforcement phases was significantly less than those in pre-revision phase.
According to the findings, the researcher proposes some practical suggestions. For reporters, taking courses of mental health issues and adopting the attitude of self-discipline were recommended. For rehabilitation counselors, providing report principles and supervising mass media cooperatively were essential. For the policy, revising the thirteenth and fourteenth laws and enforcement rules of the twenty-third law of the Mental Health Policy was suggested. For further studies, recruiting more subjects and incorporating interviews into research methods were preferred.
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