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Social Stigma of People with Dementia

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2020
In a broad sense, the concept of social stigmatization (from the Greek word “stigma”, or sign) refers to the attitude of social disapproval and the negative reception of a specific group of people due to the characteristic features of this group. The problem of stigma affects many people, and it is also present in medicine and affects people with ...
Konrad Rejdak, Magdalena Rewerska-Juśko
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Mental health: The burden of social stigma

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021
AbstractThe burden of mental health has two facets, social and psychological. Social stigma causes individuals who suspect to be suffering from a mental condition to conceal it, importantly by seeking care from a nonspecialist provider willing to diagnose it as physical disease.
P. Zweifel
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Revisiting the social stigma of loneliness

Personality and Individual Differences, 2021
Abstract In past studies examining the stigmatization of loneliness, perceivers evaluated hypothetical targets who were lonely and socially inept or reclusive. For example, Lau and Gruen (1992) described the lonely target as a person who “pretty much keeps to himself.” This is problematic because recent research shows that lonely people do not have
Natalie A. Kerr, Taylor B. Stanley
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Narratives of Generativity and Resilience among LGBT Older Adults: Leaving Positive Legacies despite Social Stigma and Collective Trauma

Journal of Homosexuality, 2021
The aim of many adults in middle to old age is to be generative. Generativity is the concern older adults direct toward the wellbeing of future generations.
K. Bower   +3 more
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The Social Psychology of Stigma.

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2001
Dovidio, Major, Crocker, Stigma: Introduction and Overview. Part 1: The Perceiver. Neuberg,D.M Smith, Asher, Why People Stigmatize: Toward a Biocultural Framework. Stangor, Crandall, Threat and the Social Construction of Stigma. Biernat, Dovidio, Stigma and Stereotypes. Crandall, Ideology and Lay Theories of Stigma: The Justification of Stigmatization.
Karen Bettez Halnon   +4 more
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Promoting the “Social” in the Examination of Social Stigmas

Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2005
This review highlights the value of empirical investigations examining actual interactions that occur between stigmatizers and targets, and is intended to stimulate and help guide research of this type. We identify trends in the literature demonstrating that research studying ongoing interactions between stigmatizers and targets is relatively less ...
Michelle R. Hebl, John F. Dovidio
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Social stigma in time of COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from India

, 2021
Purpose The stigmatisation of COVID-19 patients or suspected cases is a matter of grave concern across the world, including India Today, COVID-19 patients or suspected cases are being stigmatised or labelled as "corona carrier" and "corona spreader ...
Barsa Priyadarsinee Sahoo, A. B. Patel
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Pregnancy: A social stigma?

Sex Roles, 1977
Experimental evidence is presented which explores the social stimulus value of pregnancy. It was found that, for men especially, the pregnant woman elicits avoidance and staring and that these responses occur primarily because pregnancy is a novel visual stimulus.
Shelley E. Taylor, Ellen J. Langer
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Stigma and Social Inequality

2014
Since the publication in 1963 of Goffman’s book, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity the use of stigma concepts has grown enormously. For scores of stigmatizing circumstances the stigma concept provides a way to give expression to the social predicaments people encounter.
Mark L. Hatzenbuehler   +2 more
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Stigma and Social Exclusion

2004
T he need to form and maintain lasting, positive, and significant relation-ships with others is a fundamental human motive (Baumeister & Leary,1995). People strongly desire social attachments, exert considerable energy to develop and sustain them, and are adversely affected by their dissolution or absence (Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Williams, 2001). The
Brenda Major, Collette P. Eccleston
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