Objectives: Many people with mental illness are subject to social and objective exclusion, discrimination, stigma. One of the illnesses most exposed stigma is bipolar disorder (BD). This study aimed ascertain patient perceptions support examine association between internalized stigma, self-esteem, clinical course in patients disorder. Method: cross-sectional enrolled 103 BD. Sociodemographic fo...

This study is an in-depth analysis of LGBT people’s experiences stigmatization, phenomenological qualitative study. people were contacted using snowball sampling. Data from 33 participants collected in face-to-face interviews the interview technique and semi-structured questionnaires. Content participants’ stigmatization identified three themes four subthemes: 'being LGBT; otherness', 'pretendi...

Self-orientalism stands out as a political strategy implemented voluntarily by modernizing leaders during the formation of modern-nation-states, and intellectuals who are in contact with modern colonialists post-colonial period. In other words, orientalism has been internalized media state practices. age we live in, there is no apart from phenomenon self-orientalism. The internalization dynamic...

Classic theories of self-development suggest people define themselves in part through internalized perceptions of other people's beliefs about them, known as reflected self-appraisals. This study uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare the neural correlates of direct and reflected self-appraisals in adolescence (N = 12, ages 11-14 years) and adulthood (N = 12, ages 23-30 years). D...

Adolescence is a developmental period marked by heightened attunement to social evaluation. While adults have been shown to enact self-protective processes to buffer their self-views from evaluative threats like peer rejection, it is unclear whether adolescents avail themselves of the same defenses. The present study examines how social evaluation shapes views of the self and others differently...