Is It #okaytosay I Have Anxiety and Depression? Evaluations of Job Applicants Who Disclose Mental Health Problems on LinkedIn

• Published in: Journal of business and psychology Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 779 - 795
• Main Authors: McChesney, Jenna, Foster, Lori
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.06.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anxiety; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Business and Management; Community and Environmental Psychology; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Mental depression; Mental health; Original Paper; Personality and Social Psychology; Psychology; Social networks; Social Sciences; Hiring; LinkedIn; Depression; Anxiety; Expectancy-confirmation framework

Mental health challenges are stigmatized in society and at work, yet people are increasingly posting about their experiences of anxiety and depression on social media. Drawing from the expectancy-confirmation framework in the stereotype literature by Darley and Gross (1983), this experiment examined...