Active coping efforts temper negative attributions of disability stigma.

Identifying the Negative Stigma Associated with Having a Learning Disability

Depression in adults with mild intellectual disability: role of stress, attributions, and coping.

The experience of stressful social interactions, negative causal attributions, and the use of maladaptive coping efforts help maintain depression over time in the general population. We investigated whether a similar experience occurs among adults with mild intellectual disability. We compared the frequency and stress impact of such interactions, identified causal attributions for these interac...

Coping with Stigma

This final section considers what can be done to cope with stigma. Kunreuther and Slovic identify four strategies for coping with stigma. Walker, in a response to Kunreuther and Slovic, questions the assumption that society ought to adopt the nor-mative values of reducing stigma through a variety of strategies or techniques. Fischhoff proposes a definition of stigma and draws a number of infere...

Attributions and coping in children's pain experiences.

OBJECTIVE To examine how children's injury attributions and coping strategies relate to procedure-related distress during unplanned medical procedures (laceration repair). METHODS Children (N = 50) with minor lacerations were assessed from emergency department admittance until discharge. Children's attributions of causes regarding their injury were assessed, and the Procedural Behavior Checkl...

Disability, Stigma and Social Exclusion

Social exclusion and unequal development assuming an intimate relation between the social form of relations and the corresponding character of economic development is not only significant from the point of view of the constitutionally recognized excluded categories and classes of people but also has in its scope the cause of other disadvantaged segments of population. It implies that the proces...