Identity Management Strategies for Workers with Concealable Disabilities: Antecedents and Consequences

Santuzzi, Alecia M.; Keating, Robert; Martínez, Jesús; Finkelstein, Lisa M.; Rupp, Deborah E.; Strah, Nicole

doi:10.1111/josi.12320

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“…Our finding that prejudice is higher among people who described their disabilities as easier to hide adds to the literature on people with concealable stigmatized identities (e.g. Quinn & Earnshaw, ; Weisz, Quinn, & Williams, ), particularly concealable disabilities (e.g., Santuzzi et al, ; Santuzzi, Waltz, Finkelstein, & Rupp, ; Werner, Halpern, Kurz, & Rosenne, ). Much of the research on this subject has focused on costs and benefits of disclosing identities; our research speaks to whether concealability affects prejudice toward others with disabilities.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

Demographic, Experiential, and Temporal Variation in Ableism

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Keller

Chopik

2019

Journal of Social Issues

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Data from Project Implicit were analyzed to explore trends in ableism. Over 300,000 U.S. residents with and without disabilities completed the Disability Implicit Association Test and two measures of explicit prejudice. The most consistent predictors of bias across types of prejudice were gender and contact with individuals with disabilities: Women and those who had contact were less prejudiced. Temporal analyses indicated that mean implicit prejudice increased over time (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)), yet explicit bias showed a decline over the same period. Among people with disabilities, implicit and explicit prejudice were related to lower contact with others who shared one's disability, as well as to perceptions that one's disorder affects few activities and/or is primarily mental or emotional. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

Demographic, Experiential, and Temporal Variation in Ableism

Harder

Keller

Chopik

2019

Journal of Social Issues

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“…Santuzzi et al. () explore “identity management strategies” for people with concealable disabilities at work, whereas Werner, Halpern, Kurz, and Rosenne () dig into “disclosure” for persons who live with cystic fibrosis. We learn about the conditions under which disabled persons develop a sophisticated and critical disability consciousness, facilitating an acute and healthy recognition of ableism (Dirth & Branscombe, ).…”

Section: Navigating Ableism: Challenging Resisting and Avoiding Ablmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Disability Studies: Looking Back and Forward

Fine

2019

Journal of Social Issues

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This epilogue is written in three voices. I reflect back, in conversation with Adrienne Asch, on the history of critical disability studies in psychology; then I thank Kathleen R. Bogart and Dana S. Dunn as I review the magnificent set of articles in the volume centering the construct ableism, and finally I write to the next generation of dis/crit scholars on how we might democratize, decolonize, and curate psychological inquiries on ableism and in solidarity with disability justice. Drafted as a love letter to the late Adrienne Asch, the essay considers where we have come, and where we have yet to go, as a field that takes seriously and takes to task the role that professional psychology has played in constructing, and segregating, disabled persons. The essay ends with ethical and epistemological musings about our obligation to animate a radically engaged, intersectional, critical, participatory, and provocative assemblage of research that is at once anti-ableist and crafted toward disability justice.

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“…A person’s decision to disclose their disability in the workplace is personal and shaped by a myriad of individual, interpersonal, organizational, legal, and societal factors [ 16 , 23 – 25 ]. All else being equal, employees with less visible disabilities, such as mental health or chronic health conditions like cancer, face distinct challenges in disclosing their disabilities, as compared to employees with more visible disabilities [ 9 , 11 , 15 , 26 , 27 ].…”

Section: Research On Disability Disclosure In the Workplacementioning

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Diversity and inclusion in the legal profession: disclosure of cancer and other health conditions by lawyers with disabilities and lawyers who identify as LGBTQ +

2022

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Purpose Given the training and experience of lawyers, we assumed that a study of lawyers’ willingness to disclose disability in the workplace would provide an example of the actions of a group knowledgeable about disability law. The current study accounts for the effect of visibility of disability, onset and type of disability, and whether the lawyer has made an accommodation request. We also investigate the role of other individual characteristics, such as sexual orientation, gender identity, race/ethnicity, age, and job-related characteristics, in willingness to disclose. Methods We use data from the first phase of a longitudinal national survey of lawyers in the USA to estimate the odds of disclosing disability to co-workers, management, and clients using proportional odds models. Results Lawyers with less visible disabilities, those with mental health disabilities, and those who work for smaller organizations have lower odds of disclosing to co-workers, management, and clients as compared to their counterparts. Attorneys who have requested accommodations are more willing to disclose as compared to those who have not, but only to co-workers and management. Women are less likely than men to disclose to management and clients. However, gender is not a significant determinant of disclosure to co-workers. Older attorneys are more likely to disclose to clients, whereas attorneys with children are less likely to disclose to co-workers. Lastly, lower perceived prejudice and the presence of co-workers with disabilities are associated with higher disclosure scores, but not for all groups. Conclusions Individuals who acquired a disability at a relatively early point in life and those with more visible disabilities are more likely to disclose. However, such willingness is affected by the intersection of disability with other individual and firm-level characteristics. Implications for Cancer Survivors. The findings imply that those with less visible disabilities and with health conditions acquired later in life are less likely to disclose. The relevance of the findings is heightened by the altered work conditions and demands imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic for cancer survivors.

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Identity Management Strategies for Workers with Concealable Disabilities: Antecedents and Consequences

Cited by 22 publications

References 74 publications

Demographic, Experiential, and Temporal Variation in Ableism

Demographic, Experiential, and Temporal Variation in Ableism

Critical Disability Studies: Looking Back and Forward

Diversity and inclusion in the legal profession: disclosure of cancer and other health conditions by lawyers with disabilities and lawyers who identify as LGBTQ +

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