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Twenty-four percent of the male managers surveyed had negative attitudes toward depression. The corresponding figure for female managers surveyed was twelve percent. Stock Photography.
Are you depressed and have a male boss? Then there is a great risk that he will say: Hold on to the neck and pull up.
Twice as many men and women as managers have negative attitudes towards depression, according to a study from the University of Gothenburg.
Through an online survey, 2,663 managers were asked to answer to what extent they agreed with twelve different statements, in eleven of the twelve cases differences were observed between men and women.
Based on the responses, men tend to feel more insecure than women with depressed employees. Men increasingly believe that these employees are a burden to the workplace, and male managers agreed more than women with the statement that they would not hire someone they knew had depression.
More negative men
The only claim that male and female managers responded to equally is that it is stressful with depressed employees.
In summary, the results showed that 24 percent of the male managers surveyed had negative attitudes toward depression. The corresponding figure for female managers surveyed was 12 percent.
– It does not seem strange to us that men have more negative attitudes towards depression than women, because men in society in general do. But when it comes to managers who are responsible for meeting with these employees, we may not think the differences would remain after checking so many other variables, we were a bit surprised, says Monica Bertilsson, senior professor of public health sciences at the Gothenburg University and project manager. for the study.
Formation plans
The study is part of a larger project examining the knowledge, skills and strategies of managers to support employees suffering from depression. The purpose is to develop training initiatives for managers in a future project.
– We know from other studies in society that there is a lot of stigma and prejudice against mental illness and we wanted to see what it is like among managers, to gain more knowledge about how we should configure an education, says Monica Bertilsson.
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