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Longitudinal Study of an Emerging COVID-19 Stigma: Media Exposure, Danger Appraisal, and Stress
Stigma and Health ; : 10, 2022.
Article in English | Web of Science | ID: covidwho-1665684
ABSTRACT
Media coverage of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has played a critical role throughout the pandemic sharing news about the novel virus, policies and practices to mitigate it, and the race to create and distribute 4 vaccines. The media coverage, however, has been critiqued as stigmatizing. Although this critique is not new, there is limited understanding of how and why new stigmas emerge from exposure to media coverage. Drawing upon the model of stigma communication (Smith et al., 2019) and the attribution model of stigma (Corrigan et al., 2003), we investigated a novel model of stigma emergence that delineates two kinds of longitudinal processes (a) a message-effects process, in which exposure to mediated messages about COVID-19 leads to public stigma through danger appraisal and (b) a coping process in which stress and rumination shape later perceptions of public stigma. To test the model, we tracked an emerging COVID-19 stigma with a two-wave survey of a prospective, longitudinal cohort living in one county in a mid-Atlantic state (N = 883). The results supported this model. The longitudinal processes of stigma emergence and implications for COVID-19 stigma are discussed.
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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: Web of Science Type of study: Cohort study / Observational study / Prognostic study Language: English Journal: Stigma and Health Year: 2022 Document Type: Article

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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: Web of Science Type of study: Cohort study / Observational study / Prognostic study Language: English Journal: Stigma and Health Year: 2022 Document Type: Article