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ERIC Number: EJ1466091
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Apr
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1362-3613
EISSN: EISSN-1461-7005
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Factors Underlying Differences in Knowledge, Explicit Stigma and Implicit Biases towards Autism across Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States
Yulin Cheng1; Patrick Dwyer2,3; Connor Tom Keating4,5
Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, v29 n4 p868-883 2025
A growing literature suggests that there is cross-cultural variation in levels of autism-related stigma, which may partially be explained by differences in cultural orientation or autism-related knowledge between countries. This literature has relied heavily on self-report measures of explicit attitudes towards autism; little research has examined implicit biases, and whether these implicit biases vary across cultures. Thus, here we had two aims: (1) to assess the contribution of knowledge and cultural orientation to "both" explicit stigma and implicit biases, and (2) to compare autism-related knowledge, explicit stigma, and implicit biases across university students in Hong Kong (n = 119), the United Kingdom (n = 120), and the United States (n = 122). Replicating prior work, we found that explicit stigma was predicted by less accurate knowledge, lower horizontal collectivism, greater vertical individualism, and higher implicit biases. Implicit biases were "directly" predicted by age and explicit stigma, and "indirectly" predicted by vertical individualism (positively) and horizontal collectivism (negatively) via explicit stigma. Knowledge and explicit stigma differed across countries, even after accounting for covariates: students in Hong Kong displayed less accurate knowledge, and higher explicit stigma towards autism, than those in the United Kingdom and United States. However, implicit biases did not differ between countries.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong; United Kingdom; United States
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Implicit Association Test
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Author Affiliations: 1The University of Hong Kong, China; 2University of California Davis, USA; 3La Trobe University, Australia; 4University of Birmingham, UK; 5University of Oxford, UK