Objective: To explore the current situation of college students’ implicit and explicit stigma
towards depression patients. Methods: The implicit test procedure was modified and three independent
implicit measures, SC-IAT, were developed to measure the implicit cognitive, affective and behavioral
stigma in depression; the semantic difference scale corresponding to the implicit test was also developed,
used to measure explicit stigma in depression. Results: The average score of the cognitive evaluation
dimension of the Depression Semantic Difference Scale was significantly lower than the median
(t(56)=-11.50, p<0.001), and the average score of the affective response dimension was significantly
higher than the median (t(57)=6.75, p<0.001), the mean score on the behavioral disposition dimension
was significantly higher than the median (t(57)=10.68, p<0.001); on implicit stigma, cognitive evaluation,
emotional response and behavioral response The average D value is greater than 0. Conclusion: In
terms of implicit stigma of depression, college students have negative cognitive evaluation of emotional
responses and implicit behavioral tendencies to patients with depression; in terms of explicit stigma of
depression, college students have negative cognitive evaluation of patients with depression, while college
students have negative cognitive evaluation of depression patients. Shows a positive attitude in emotional
responses and behavioral tendencies.