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Addiction Relapse
Published in Howard Shaffer, Barry Stimmel, The Addictive Behaviors, 2014
Harvey Milkman, Scott E. Weiner, Stanley Sunderwirth
A critical phase in the development of a self-limiting identity occurs when an individual is labeled by those around him or her as a member of a deviant subgroup (e.g., alcoholic, obese, criminal). This stigmatization process tends to reinforce the perception of self as worthless. Self-expectations are adjusted to the social stereotype (e.g., being irresponsible or impulsive) and relationships with others are tainted by the mutual recognition of a “spoiled identity.”21 The stereotyped individual thus becomes further engulfed in a role which restricts his/her life opportunities.
Self-Stigma of seeking help and job burnout in mental health care providers: the comparative study of Lithuanian and the USA samples
Published in Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 2019
Auksė Endriulaitienė, Kristina Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė, Aistė Pranckevičienė, Rasa Markšaitytė, Douglas R. Tillman, David D. Hof
On the contrary, the self-stigma of seeking help might be expected to be higher in the United States than in Lithuania. In Vogel et al. (2011), it was stated that conformity to the dominant U.S. masculinity norms might be a predictor of negative help seeking attitudes. In societies that are more masculine oriented (according to Hofstede, 2001) it is expected that both genders will express attributes and behavior more frequently assigned to the male gender, such as independence, forcefulness, decisiveness, and rationality. This gender-role identification is not consistent with being vulnerable, emotional, or help seeking (Vogel et al., 2011). Previous research supported the idea that men have less favorable attitudes regarding help seeking and emotional care than women, due to the masculine social stereotype (Vogel et al., 2007). Therefore, in masculine American society, higher levels of self-stigmatization might be expected. Lithuanian society, on the contrary, is more feminine. With a more feminine composition, society is generally less competitive, genders are expected to be emotionally closer with one another, places value on taking care of others and seeking help (Hofstede, 2001), preserving of traditions, and less individualistic. As such, self-stigmatization in help seeking might be less expressed among the general population as well as among health care providers.
Homosexuality as Practice and the Social Implications of Representation
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2018
Therefore, in the study of homosexuality, the examination of sexual practices and identifications of people who appear socially as heterosexual is crucial: people who, for example, have homosexual relations while maintaining heterosexual relationships, having children, and raising families. In other words, these are ordinary men and women who do not fall within the social stereotype of gay and lesbian, but engage in the same practices as those who are given this label. Those people are beyond categorization, and articulate a series of identity and behavior strategies in order that their sexual practices do not give them an unwanted label that can harm their social status or acquired way of life.
The Effects of Prostate Cancer Treatment on Role-In-Sex in Gay and Bisexual Men: Mixed Methods Results from the Restore-1 and Restore-2 Studies
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2023
Alexander Tatum, B. R. Simon Rosser, Christopher W. Wheldon, Maria Beatriz Torres, Alex J. Bates, Ryan Haggart, Badrinath R. Konety, Darryl Mitteldorf, Elizabeth J. Polter, Michael W. Ross, Kristine M.C. Talley, William West, Morgan M. Wright, Ziwei Zhang
Respondent 19 explained that he tried to become a bottom as means to explore his sexuality, not when feeling he is forced to explore it as a result of his cancer treatment. In doing so, he touched on minority stress theory by highlighting a common social stereotype about MSM: I hate it when people say, “Well, you know, as a gay man, you have an option. You can always bottom.” … I don’t think I could anymore “suddenly become a bottom” anymore than I could suddenly decide to go out and fly a Delta 747. [Respondent 19]