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Showing 1 to 20 of 252 for “"Stigmatization"”.
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Current HIV/AIDS Infection Rates: Categorization and Stigmatization
<p>Since the early 1980s, when the correlates of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were first identified, certain segments of the population were thought to be at greater risk than others for contracting the disease (Centers for Disease Control, 1981). This classification of the population …
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Racial distancing and sensitivity to stigmatization among future black professionals
… of respondents were highly sensitive to racial stigmatization whether or not they were from racially diverse communities or predominantly Black spaces. Racial distancing was observed in a small minority of the regional sample, indicated by a low desire to be identified by race in college and job …
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Punishment versus non-stigmatization in the Massachusetts juvenile justice system.
Thesis. 1976. B.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Personality, Character Strengths, Empathy, Familiarity and the Stigmatization of Mental Illness
… be positively and negatively associated with the stigmatization of mental illness. Two-hundred fifty-nine undergraduate students from the University of Southern Mississippi completed measures of the Big Five personality traits (i.e., Agreeableness, Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and …
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Traumatized Through Healing: The Stigmatization and Misrecognition of Trauma Among American Physicians
Language shapes the way that we look at an issue and the words we choose to define a problem dictate how we address it. This dissertation focuses on the effects of trauma on physicians and analyzes how the professional identity of physicians fails to provide adequate solutions for coping with the …
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Pregnancy in the Workplace: Stigmatization and Work Identity Management Among Pregnant Employees
… of pregnancy and work, presenting a model of stigmatization and identity management among pregnant workers. I identify several work environment and job characteristics that may influence the likelihood that pregnant women perceive a threat of stigmatization, and I specify the relationship …
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The Politics of Stigmatization: Poland as a ‘Latecomer’ in the European Union
… has become a stigma. This dissertation asks how stigmatization and subjection to tacit hierarchies, constructed through discourse, affect a state’s foreign policy. It focuses on the East-West relation in the European Union as one example of a hierarchy within this community of states. This …
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Mediators of change in the stigmatization of depression among Caucasian and Asian populations
Public stigma negatively impacts public health by discouraging people with depression from seeking help. In North America, Asians reliably report higher levels of stigma and lower levels of help-seeking than do Caucasians. The reasons for this discrepancy and possible methods of reducing this have, …
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"Holy dwarves" and "devil babies": An anthropological world-survey of stigmatization of the disabled
… categorizations. Positive and negative forms of stigmatization exist cross-culturally, and are examined in a world-survey format in terms of emic socio-cultural level, subsistence economy, and religion. I suggest that responses to disability are cultural specific, and that these individualized …
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Stigmatization of Psychological and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Effects of Diagnostic Labeling in a Legal Context
… to clarify the ways diagnostic labels perpetuate stigmatization of defendants by assessing sentencing and facility recommendations, future dangerousness predictions, and defendant controllability and stability attributions. These measures were administered after participants read a vignette …
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The Stigmatization of Hunger: The Impact of Social Stigma on Arkansas Youths’ Food Security
<p>In Arkansas, 26.3% of children are food insecure, meaning they do not have enough or lack the ability to obtain enough food for adequate nutrition (Miller 2019). In recent years, a new phenomenon has been taking place called lunch shaming where children are sometimes forced to wear signs or …
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HIV-Related Stigmatization in Treatment Settings: Effects on Patient Comfort, Risk Disclosure, and Treatment Decisions
… study was to examine the effects of provider stigmatization on the medical care of HIV+ patients, by using an experimental paradigm and examining a conceptual framework to clarify the relationship between provider stigmatization and negative treatment outcomes. Initial qualitative findings …
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A Dis-Ability Perspective on the Stigmatization of Dissent: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Criminology, and Critical Animal Studies
… I explored why and how activists respond to the stigmatization of being labeled as or associated with terrorists, a process I refer to as "terrorization." Chapter One is an introduction to global ecological conditions and post-September 11, 2001 US political repressive conditions toward …
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Associations Among Adolescent Obesity, Bullying, and Media Exposure in Relation to Psychological Adjustment and Body -Size Stigmatization
… males were more likely overall to express weight-stigmatization. A social consensus approach was not found to reduce weight bias for either sex. Weight-based teasing and perceived pressure to be thin felt from family, friends, and peers, were both found to mediate the association between BMI and …
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Ethnic Minorities in Brazil and Spain: Erasure and Stigmatization, Gender, and Self-Representation of Indigenous and Roma Communities
This research is an interdisciplinary work on the use of media by marginalized ethnic minorities for self-representation, using as its frame of reference scholars such as Faye Ginsburg, Gayatri Spivak, Judith Butler, Stuart Hall, Achille Mbembe, and David Harvey. Specifically, this dissertation …
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