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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"social stigma"”.
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
… unsanctified by marriage, causes her to be stigmatized in the eyes of society; and her stigmatization results in expulsion from society and enforced wandering through a literal or figurative wilderness. There are three variations of this archetype: the child-woman as represented by the …
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The Stigmatization of Hunger: The Impact of Social Stigma on Arkansas Youths’ Food Security
… media frames food insecurity and how perceived social stigmas affect a student’s willingness to seek out help when struggling with food security. </p>
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The Impact of Social Stigma on the Therapeutic Relationship for Latino Clinicians: The Elephant in the Room?
<p>Social stigma is consistently mentioned in the literature as one of the barriers</p><p>preventing Latinos from seeking, accessing and remaining in mental health care. This</p><p>study focuses specifically on social stigma as a barrier to remain in psychotherapy.</p><p>Social stigma is understood …
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The Value of Normal Body Weight in Iceland
… between happiness and obesity is partly due to social stigma. Three model specifications are estimated, (i) one with basic control variables, (ii) another where obesity-related disease variables are included to eliminate the possible health mechanism and isolate the remaining effect, that could …
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The Impact of Religious Behaviors, Islamophobia, Gender Roles, Language Proficiency, and Education Levels on Mental Illness Stigma and Help-Seeking Behaviors Among Arab Women in the U.S.
… as mental health problems and their associated stigma. The influence of cultural, social, and religious factors on self-stigma associated with mental illness has not been adequately studied among this marginalized group. While previous research has suggested a relationship between self-stigma, …
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'I am simply an athlete' : a psychological exploration of athletic identity in physical impairment and amputation
… experiences of ‘disability’ can be attributed to stigmatising societal attitudes. The first aim of the thesis was to complete a meta-synthesis exploring the identity-related experiences of elite athletes with physical impairments. This review demonstrated that sport facilitated valued identities, …
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The Social Function of Redemption Narratives for Former Offenders
Former offenders face social stigma that creates significant barriers to successful community re¬entry by reducing opportunities for personal success and relationship building within the community. The present study examines the effect of autobiographical redemption narratives on attitudes toward …
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Hispanics' Attitudes Toward Seeking Counselingas A Function Of Psychosocial And Demographic Variables
Using variables identified in the social science literature believed to influence attitudes toward seeking professional counseling, an attempt was made to develop a model for predicting Hispanics' willingness to obtain professional help. A second purpose of this study was to compare college …
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An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Stigma Associated with Receiving Mental Health Services: The Role of Social Proximity
… research has demonstrated that mental health stigma, including social and self-stigma, is one of the most significant barriers to an individual seeking available mental health services. Additionally, low levels of social proximity to mental illness may be a significant factor in increased …
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Never Alone: A "Look" At Imaginal Companions
… companions, they are potentially subject to the social stigma of psychological labeling. The mass media reflects this perception of reality and influences social interactions regarding experiences and beliefs in imaginal companions. Fear of this social stigma limits folk group size, which …
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Conceptualizing the undocumented college student's legal status.
… them a higher societal status by joining the social category of "college student," and one that is associated with a social stigma that comes from the label of "undocumented." Higher education institutions provide a place for undocumented students to navigate their legal status identity, make …
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Mental Health Service Utilization Among African-American Adolescents
… of barriers to treatment and caregiver report of social stigma showed trends towards significance in predicting treatment engagement. Self-stigma did not show any associations with treatment, and stigma did not moderate the associations between the facilitative and prohibitive factors and …
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Campus Mental Health Practices and the Stigma of Mental Illness: A Quantitative Analysis of Student Affairs Professionals
… such as help seeking. This study focused on the stigma of mental illness due to its consistent, negative relationship with help-seeking behaviors.</p> <p>Stigmatizing attitudes of Student Affairs professionals was used as a measure of campus culture due to professionals’ direct, consistent …
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The Captivity of Opportunity: The Conversation Surrounding Church-Going Hispanic Immigrants
… By exploring these results through the lens of social stigma theory (Goffman, 2009) and intergroup contact theory (Pettigrew, 1998; Berg, 2009), the current research illuminated the marginalization of this population. Ultimately, participants narrated that the challenges that they face are far …
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Female Sexual Offenders-an Underexamined Population
… be among the most damaging and heinous forms of social deviance in existence. Besides the acts perpetrated by the offenders, the social stigma attached to being victimized is often just as injurious to the victim. Society sees males as the sole perpetrators of acts of sexual abuse, but this is …
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A phenomenological study of the experiences of voluntarily childless married couples: a lifetime decision
… (b) Sacrifice, (c) Poor Parenting, (d) Social Stigma, and (e) Substitutions; the overarching theme was Creating. The study helps illustrate the phenomenon of choosing to remain voluntarily childless and provides insight into this growing population and different pathways couples …
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Bankruptcy Stigma: A Socio-Legal Study
… it is appropriate for debtors to experience some social stigma upon filing for personal bankruptcy--that is, whether it serves the goals of bankruptcy law for debtors to feel shame. While this issue has been extensively discussed as a theoretical matter, to date no legal commentator or scholar has …
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Patient Perspectives on Barriers to Hepatitis C Treatment: Qualitative Analysis of Patient Focus Groups
… with physician-patient relationships as well as social stigma and lack of accurate disease knowledge. These areas of concern expressed by patients in focus groups have highlighted underexplored areas that may warrant future investigation as potential opportunities for development of intervention.
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Issues of disclosure in relation to HIV and AIDS
… broad-based initiatives, such as community based stigma reduction intervention programmes (later) based on the findings of the study, could have an impact on the uptake of HIV-testing and disclosure rate. The total sample comprised of 15 females and 15 males that were chosen from one of the …
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Mother’s Little Helper: A Memoir in Vignettes
… and grappled with therapists, medication, and social stigma. Dub worked to stay ahead of medical bills and keep his wife out of the state hospital, a struggle that lost him his life. Rhonda and Susie, raised by a mother who could not control her emotions, experienced feelings of shame, failure, …
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