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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Stigma Theory"”.
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The Captivity of Opportunity: The Conversation Surrounding Church-Going Hispanic Immigrants
… of living in the United States. Guided grounded theory data analysis revealed three categories and 14 subcategories, or themes of conversation, surrounding this hot topic. Participants shed light on the distinctive challenges they faced, how these challenges affected them, and how they attempted …
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The Impact of Singlism on Mental Well-being for Unmarried Muslim American Women
This dissertation investigates singlism or the stigma, stereotyping, and marginalization of singlehood among unmarried Muslim Americans, with an emphasis on Muslim American women. Using an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach, three studies were conducted. The first quantitatively assessed …
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Low Literate Consumers in a Literate Marketplace: Exploring Consumer Literacy and Its Impact
… deficits. Based on the body of literature on stigma theory (Goffman 1963), previous work suggested coping strategies to result as a mechanism to protect the consumers' feelings of self-worth. This research identifies seven categories of coping strategies. The data collected show that coping …
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"You Missed the Exam!" A Discourse with College Students with Learning Disabilities on their Experiences with Self-Determination, Self-Advocacy, and Stigma in Secondary and Postsecondary Education
… motivation and intelligence and Erving Goffman's stigma theory. The results of this study provide insight into how students with learning disabilities navigate college, particularly around their views of motivation and self-determination, which related to their belief in an "incremental" view of …
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UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN OPPORTUNITY: FACTORS INFLUENCING ENGAGEMENT AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN IN THE U.S. CORPORATE WORKPLACE
… men, workplace engagement, critical race theory, social stigma theory, corporate inclusion, resilience
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License to Discriminate: Structural Stigma and Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Health
… that a lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) persons’ stigmatized status impacts their health relative to heterosexuals. However, less research has examined how differences in stigma towards LGB people across geographic locales influences these health differentials. This dissertation draws upon …
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The Influence of Stigma on Help Seeking Attitudes for Depression
… illness, and its treatment may be hampered by stigma. There have been a limited number of studies that link stigma and help seeking attitudes for depression. The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to identify the relationship between stigmatizing attitudes and help seeking …
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Stigma in Women Living with HIV in Jakarta, Indonesia
… cases reported in 2013. Many of these women get stigmatized in their communities once their diagnosis is known, and we know little about these experiences of WLWH in Indonesia. This dissertation examines the stigma experiences of WLWH in Jakarta, Indonesia in three ways. Manuscript one reviews …
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Choices of non-normativity: On coming out as LGBTQA+ within higher education settings
… identities, coming out, and non-normativity (theory development - research question two), and (3) provide policy and practice suggestions that empower LGBTQA+ individuals in the navigation of their intersecting identities within professional and non-professional university settings (research …
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RELIGIOUS STIGMA: A PECULIAR PEOPLE A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF STIGMA ON THE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
This thesis analyzes the stigma placed on members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as the tactics used to mitigate the experienced stigma. Throughout history the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been recipients of the effects of stigma. …
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Business Exits and Reentry: Demand and Supply Explanations of Entrepreneur Career Choices
… engagement that correlate to informal (stigma of business failure, masculine norms) and formal (regulatory environment) institutional contexts. On the supply side, I develop propositions about cognitive aspects of business exits that influence the motivation of experienced entrepreneurs …