Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10448282 | Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry | 2010 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Perceived legitimacy of discrimination shapes reactions to mental illness stigma among stigmatized individuals. We assessed deliberately endorsed versus automatic shame-related reactions to mental illness as predictors of change in perceived legitimacy of discrimination over six months among 75 people with mental illness. Automatically activated shame-related associations with mental illness were measured using the Brief Implicit Association Test, deliberately endorsed beliefs via self-report. Controlling for depression and perceived stigma, stronger baseline automatic shame-related associations, but not deliberately endorsed beliefs, predicted higher perceived legitimacy of discrimination after six months. Automatically activated shame reactions may increase vulnerability to mental illness stigma.
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Authors
Nicolas Rüsch, Andrew R. Todd, Galen V. Bodenhausen, Manfred Olschewski, Patrick W. Corrigan,