The Opinions About Mental Illness Scale (OMI) was administered to 157 psychiatrists, residents, nurses, and aides from an urban, short-term psychiatric hospital. The 5 factor scores of the scale were intercorrelated; correlations were higher among factors and, in some cases, in different direction, than previous studies have reported. Differences among occupational groups were also found. Caution
... [Show full abstract] should be exercised in generalizing about relationships among OMI factors from one sample to another.