Internalized stigma as a barrier to improvement in vocational functioning among people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders
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Toward understanding the insight paradox: internalized stigma moderates the association between insight and social functioning, hope, and self-esteem among people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Research has paradoxically linked awareness of illness to both better function outcomes and lesser hope and self-esteem. One possible explanation for these findings is that acceptance of having schizophrenia may impact outcomes differently depending on the meanings the person attaches to this acceptance, particularly whether he or she accepts stigmatizing beliefs about mental illness. To explor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatry Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0165-1781
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.01.003