People with serious illness or disability are often burdened with social stigma that promotes a cycle of poverty via unemployment, inadequate housing and threats to mental health. Stigma may be conceptualized in terms of self-stigma (e.g., shame and lowered self-esteem) or public stigma (e.g., the general public's prejudice towards the stigmatized). This article examines two psychological proce...

Stigma can be a major stressor for people with schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, leading to emotional stress reactions and cognitive coping responses. Stigma is appraised as a stressor if perceived stigma-related harm exceeds an individual's perceived coping resources. It is unclear, however, how people with mental illness react to stigma stress and how that affects outcomes such as sel...

This study examined the relationships between perceived public stigma, experienced and quality of life in people living with HIV (PLHIV), whether self-stigma mediates these relationships. Cross-sectional data were analyzed from 1704 PLHIV care at OLVG hospital Netherlands. We measured different types stigma (perceived self-stigma), various quality-of-life outcomes (disclosure concerns, depressi...

Studies have suggested that stigma resistance plays an important role in the recovery from mental illness. However, there has been limited research in Asian countries that has examined the benefits of stigma resistance among the mentally ill in Asian populations. Hence, this study aimed to assess the prevalence of stigma resistance and establish the socio-demographic correlates of stigma resist...

We proposed a model to examine the relationship among different types of weight-related stigmas and their quality life (QoL). recruited 430 dyads elementary school children [mean age = 10.07 years; n boy 241 (56.0%); overweight 138 (32.1%)] parents. Parents completed QoL instruments about assessing generic QoL. Children stigma scales experienced weight stigma, self-stigma, perceived stigma. Exp...

HIV-related stigma, psychological distress, self-esteem, and social support were investigated in a sample comprising people who have concealed their HIV status to all but a selected few (limited disclosers), people who could conceal but chose to be open (full disclosers), and people who had visible symptoms that made concealing difficult (visibly stigmatized). The visibly stigmatized and full d...

PURPOSE The experiential claims of nine people who stuttered were examined with the purpose of determining the impact of stuttering on their work lives and to further examine what meaning they derive from these experiences. METHOD Six male and three female participants aged 29-61 years (mean age, 41.4) who stuttered were interviewed and verbatim interview transcripts were analyzed using inter...

Studies have shown that stigmatization is linked to lower quality of life; however, only scant research has examined the association between family caregivers' internalization of stigma (affiliate stigma) and their subjective quality of life (subjective well-being, SWB). Furthermore, studies have rarely examined this association via comparison between caregivers of individuals with different de...

1 Stigmatized obese individuals tend to internalize the pervasive weight stigma which 2 might lead to self-discrimination and increased psychopathology. While explicit and 3 implicit weight stigma can be measured using self-report questionnaires and Implicit 4 Association Tests (IAT), respectively, the assessment of self-discrimination relied 5 solely on self-report. The present study sought to...

BACKGROUND People with schizophrenia face prejudice and discrimination from a number of sources including professionals and families. The degree of stigma perceived and experienced varies across cultures and communities. We aimed to develop a cross-cultural measure of the stigma perceived by people with schizophrenia. METHOD Items for the scale were developed from qualitative group interviews...