Background The use of image-laden social media is hypothesized as being implicated in psychological distress individuals with conditions affecting their appearance. However, relatively little known about the mechanisms involved this relationship. Objective This cross-sectional study examined relationship between photo-orientated and feelings stigmatization adults acne, tested whether upward ski...

In this article, we address a gap in the scholarship on (super)diversity, discrimination and racism by placing experiences of non-western migrants Roma people same conceptual framework stigmatization based racialization aporophobia. Including (formally non-recognized) national minority, Spanish Roma, such an analysis implies moving from superdiversity applied to immigrants broader one, which al...

Findings are presented on a study of 40 gay father families created through surrogacy and a comparison group of 55 lesbian mother families created through donor insemination with a child aged 3-9 years. Standardized interview, observational and questionnaire measures of stigmatization, quality of parent-child relationships, and children's adjustment were administered to parents, children, and t...

The HIV epidemic has resulted in a renewed interest by social scientists in stigmatization and in a corresponding need to reconceptualize stigma, especially its relationship to power. While the professions have some power to control stigma, the emergence of self-help and mutual aid groups such as those founded by the gay activists involved in the AIDS epidemic, has shown that patients are not s...

KEY TERMS acculturation • cultural competence • discrimination • homophobia • integration • prejudice • segregation • stereotyping LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter, you will be able to: • Identify various cultural and ethnic groups in the United States and Canada. • Compare the concepts of prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping and their relationship to stigmatization. • Def...