Public Stigma and Self-Stigma: Differential Association With Attitudes Toward Formal and Informal Help Seeking

Pattyn, Elise; Verhaeghe, Mieke; Sercu, Charlotte; Bracke, Piet

doi:10.1176/appi.ps.201200561

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“…An important linkage between stigma and suicide is suggested to be "help seeking" (Reynders et al, 2014); help seeking for psychological problems is suggested as protecting people from suicide. Because people with a higher level of internalized stigma consider help from medical care providers as less important (Pattyn et al, 2014), they may not seek help when encountering psychological problems, and this might lead to suicidal behavior. However, despite the support for hypotheses from our cross-sectional study, more evidence, especially from longitudinal studies, is required to confirm them.…”

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confidence: 99%

Comparing Self-stigma Between People With Different Mental Disorders in Taiwan

Chang

Chen

et al. 2016

J Nerv Ment Dis

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Internalized stigma (or self-stigma), one of the most painful effects of stigma, causes people with mental health problems profound negative consequences, for example, psychological adversity, demoralization, and feelings of hopelessness. However, knowledge about self-stigma in people with different mental disorders is insufficient. We hypothesized that people with different psychiatric diagnoses have different levels of self-stigma. Through convenience sampling, we used the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Scale to compare people diagnosed with schizophrenia (n = 161), depressive disorder (n = 98), bipolar disorder (n = 43), and anxiety disorder (n = 45) in southern Taiwan. We found that people with schizophrenia (mean, 2.09-2.30) and those with bipolar disorder (mean, 2.16-2.38) had significantly higher levels of self-stigma, except for the Stigma Resistance, than did those with anxiety disorder (mean, 1.74-1.87). Our results suggest that clinicians should use different interventions to reduce self-stigma for populations with different psychiatric diagnoses.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Comparing Self-stigma Between People With Different Mental Disorders in Taiwan

Chang

Chen

et al. 2016

J Nerv Ment Dis

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“…Vogel, Wade, and Haake (2006) defined self-stigma as: "the reduction of an individual's self-esteem or self-worth caused by the individual self-labeling herself or himself as someone who is socially unacceptable" (p. 325). Self-stigma is associated with self-esteem, self-efficacy, and help-seeking behaviors (Corrigan, Larson, & Rusch, 2009;Pattyn, Verhaeghe, Sercu, & Bracke, 2014). For instance, Pattyn and colleagues (2014) found that internalized societal stigma was negatively related to conceptualizations of medical care as important.…”

Section: Self-stigmamentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Effects of Multiple Stigmas Among Formerly Incarcerated HIV-Positive African American Men

Brinkley‐Rubinstein¹

2015

AIDS Education and Prevention

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Race, HIV, and incarceration, as individual and intersecting markers of social identity, have associated stigma. While some research has indicated multiple burdens of stigma can be additive, there remains a lack of investigation relative to the effects of stigma among minorities who experience both HIV and incarceration. Therefore, the current study examines the impact of multiple forms of stigma via a series of ethnographic interviews (n = 46) conducted with 12 African American men over a one-year period. Results suggest that intersecting forms of stigma can have a severe impact on the general health, mental health, and the reintegration process of formerly incarcerated HIV-positive men. Additionally, participants often conceptualized all forms of stigma separately, which resulted in compounded burden of navigation. The experience of multiple forms of stigma was also often internalized as self-stigma whereby HIV-positive individuals with a history of incarceration assumed dominant norms related to both HIV and incarceration.

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“…The influence of the community might also be explained by a higher level of anticipated self-stigma. Research has shown that seeking help from general practitioners and psychiatrists, but not from psychologists, is more difficult when self-stigma is more pronounced (Pattyn, Verhaeghe, Sercu, & Bracke, 2014). It also seems to be the case that hospitalization is linked with higher self-stigma (Sarıkoç & Öz, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, the fear that the community would gossip can be associated with a higher level of perceived public stigma. In that case, one is afraid of devaluation and social Diasporic Muslims, Mental Health, and Subjectivity discrimination by one's social network (Ciftci, Jones, & Corrigan, 2013;Pattyn et al, 2014). This is also the reason why many persons with mental health problems are reluctant to seek treatment (Sarıkoç & Öz, 2016).…”

Section: Ontological Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diasporic Muslims, Mental Health, and Subjectivity: Perspectives and Experiences of Mental Health Care Professionals in Ghent

Rondelez¹,

Bracke²,

Roets³

et al. 2017

DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies

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The mental health of Muslims with a migration background in Belgium seems to be particularly at risk. Inspired by the work of Nikolas Rose on the question of subjectivity, our sociological research analyses processes of subjectification that occur within existing mental health services, and the subsequent "proper" subject of mental health that is created along the way. We focus on how mental health care professionals approach and construct diasporic Muslims in Ghent, a middle-sized city in the north of Belgium. The article consists of three sections. We first lay out how our study is grounded in the work of Rose and his attention to subjectivity. The second section presents our methodology, and the empirical material that grounds our analysis. In the third section, we apply Rose's approach to subjectivity to our empirical data. Our study challenged us to illustrate and discuss different aspects of the subjectivity dimension as explained by Rose, and to enlarge our analytical approach and identify a logic of cultural difference by relying on the work of Edward Said. We come to the conclusion that the work of Rose and Said allows a critical deconstruction of this binary dialectic between ontologically different categories of Self and Other, yet does not enable us to go beyond a negative appreciation of professionals in mental health care and to (re-)imagine a non-deterministic and non-dualistic framing of the human subject formation of diasporic Muslims.

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Public Stigma and Self-Stigma: Differential Association With Attitudes Toward Formal and Informal Help Seeking

Cited by 157 publications

References 73 publications

Comparing Self-stigma Between People With Different Mental Disorders in Taiwan

Comparing Self-stigma Between People With Different Mental Disorders in Taiwan

Understanding the Effects of Multiple Stigmas Among Formerly Incarcerated HIV-Positive African American Men

Diasporic Muslims, Mental Health, and Subjectivity: Perspectives and Experiences of Mental Health Care Professionals in Ghent

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