Wu(1984)會主張採用「概念模式」測量社區對青少年犯與對精神病患的態度,用以作為推展社區預防醫療工作的基礎。本研究即該主張之實徵研究。取青少年犯、青少年問題、心理疾病、精神病患、心理衛生、犯罪,以及社會問題等七個互相相關概念,進行「概念對概念聯想」以及「概念對屬性聯想」,結果發現「青少年犯」與「精神病患」在受試樣本的認知結構上有明顯差異,但在蘊涵意義上則是互相關連的。至於概念結構上的分析則發現「精神病患」僅與「心理疾病」較接近,而與「心理衛生」沒有太大的相涉之處;「青少年犯」則明顯的是「犯罪」的下屬概念,但兩者之屬性是有差別的。綜合言之,「概念模式」的確能獲得原先所預期的資料,應有助於推展相關的社會工作。
Wu (1984) propse a conceptual Model for the study of community's attitude toward delinqucy. And this study followed the line but moved a step forward by measuring two kinds of attitude simultaneously, this making the description of an attitude more clearly by contrasing the attitude structure from that of another attitude. Through measuring college student's attitude toward illness & attitude toward deliquency, the above-mentioned rationale was proved to be effective.