The Burden of Stigma on Health and Well-Being: A Taxonomy of Concealment, Course, Disruptiveness, Aesthetics, Origin, and Peril Across 93 Stigmas

Most individuals are stigmatized at some point. However, research often examines stigmas separately, thus underestimating the overall impact of stigma and precluding comparisons across stigmatized identities and conditions. In their classic text, Social Stigma: The Psychology of Marked Relationships...

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Published inPersonality & social psychology bulletin Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 451 - 474
Main Authors Pachankis, John E., Hatzenbuehler, Mark L., Wang, Katie, Burton, Charles L., Crawford, Forrest W., Phelan, Jo C., Link, Bruce G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.04.2018
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Adult
Aesthetics
Classification
Disruptive behaviour
Female
General public
Health
Health Status
Humans
Male
Mental Healing
Prominence
Self Report
Social psychology
Social Stigma
Stigma
Taxonomy
Well being
prejudice
intergroup processes
discrimination
depression
intersectionality
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Summary:Most individuals are stigmatized at some point. However, research often examines stigmas separately, thus underestimating the overall impact of stigma and precluding comparisons across stigmatized identities and conditions. In their classic text, Social Stigma: The Psychology of Marked Relationships, Edward Jones and colleagues laid the groundwork for unifying the study of different stigmas by considering the shared dimensional features of stigmas: aesthetics, concealability, course, disruptiveness, origin, peril. Despite the prominence of this framework, no study has documented the extent to which stigmas differ along these dimensions, and the implications of this variation for health and well-being. We reinvigorated this framework to spur a comprehensive account of stigma’s impact by classifying 93 stigmas along these dimensions. With the input of expert and general public raters, we then located these stigmas in a six-dimensional space and created discrete clusters organized around these dimensions. Next, we linked this taxonomy to health and stigma-related mechanisms. This quantitative taxonomy offers parsimonious insights into the relationship among the numerous qualities of numerous stigmas and health.
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ISSN:0146-1672
1552-7433
DOI:10.1177/0146167217741313