Face negotiation in graduate school: the decision to conceal or reveal depression among life sciences Ph.D. students in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depression is one of the top mental health concerns among biology graduate students and has contributed to the "graduate student mental health crisis" declared in 2018. Several prominent science outlets have called for interventions to improve graduate student mental health, yet it is unclear to what extent graduate students with depression discuss their mental health with others in their Ph.D. programs. While sharing one's depression may be an integral step to seeking mental health support during graduate school, depression is considered to be a concealable stigmatized identity (CSI) and revealing one's depression could result in loss of status or discrimination. As such, face negotiation theory, which describes a set of communicative behaviors that individuals use to r

SUBMITTER: Wiesenthal NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10189696 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature