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aim of this research is to determine the attitudes of psychology students
towards schizophrenia. 10 participants were interviewed using the maximum diversity
sampling in this study. A semi-structured interview form was administered to
the participants. Qualitative data were obtained and a holistic single case
design was used. The data were interpreted with descriptive analysis. In this
context, there are 3 main themes and 7 sub-themes. At the result of the study,
it was found that the participants had both positive and negative attitudes
toward schizophrenia, more dilemmas on the subjects such as work and marriage,
and the emotional patterns they described for the individuals who had been
diagnosed with schizophrenia were different from the emotions that others
described for people with schizophrenia. Certain patterns of participants 'past
experiences with schizophrenia were observed to have no effect on participants'
current thinking. As a result, it is thought that participants should be a
little more familiar with schizophrenia because of their psychology education,
but more education and study should be done in order to increase the awareness
for schizophrenia.