Beyond the Dichotomy: Modernizing Stigma Categorization.

ABSTRACT: Even though our knowledge of the cause of disease and disability has grown, stigma still exists. Weiner, Perry, and Magnusson's seminal study on attributions of stigma has been cited over 500 times since its publication in 1988. The current research sought to replicate and expand this literature in two studies. We used the 10 stigmas from the original study and we added six more (representing common psychological and physical stigmas). In the first study, we examined the classification of stigmas using cluster analysis. We found that instead of dichotomizing stigmas into either psychological or physical, attributions of controllability and stability together resulted in four distinct clusters. Although these were mostly consistent with past literature, the fourth cluster included both psyc

SUBMITTER: Cronan SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5221656 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature