To enable easier interpretation of the regression results, the selected items of AMI were reverse scored (changed to ‘1 = strongly disagree’ to ‘5 = strongly agree’), following Rüsch et al. . The total score of each factor was then summed up and used in the multivariate regression analyses. For factor 2, the scoring of the single item with positive factor loading was reverse scored again, and then added up with the scores of the remaining items within this factor. In this case, more positive attitudes towards people with mental illness were characterized as—lower ‘social distancing’, higher ‘tolerance/support for community care’, lower ‘social restrictiveness’, and lower ‘prejudice and misconception’ scores. The average factor score for ‘social distancing’ was 8.07(SE = 0.07, range 3 to15), 14.81 for ‘tolerance/support for community care’ (SE = 0.10, range 9 to 45), 7.21 for ‘social restrictiveness’ (SE = 0.07, range 3 to 15), and 15.36 for ‘prejudice and misconception’ (SE = 0.10, range 5 to 25).