Public Stigma and Continuum Beliefs Across Personality Disorder Severity Levels.
J Pers Disord
; 38(1): 75-86, 2024 Feb.
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ABSTRACT
Stigmatizing attitudes toward persons with personality disorders are common. Preliminary evidence suggests that continuum beliefs (the view that presented symptoms lie on a continuum with normality) are associated with reduced personality disorder stigma. This study aimed to evaluate whether this association holds across the entire spectrum of personality disorder severity and whether greater personality disorder severity is linked to higher stigma. A general population sample (N = 848) completed questions about a vignette depicting mild, moderate, or severe personality disorder severity. Higher continuum beliefs were associated with a lower desire for social distance from persons with mild, moderate, or severe personality disorder. In addition, continuum beliefs were higher, and the desired social distance was lower toward a person with mild than a person with moderate or severe personality disorder. Thus, fostering continuum beliefs might aid in combating personality disorder stigma, including toward severely affected persons who experience strong stigmatization.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Personalidade
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Transtornos da Personalidade
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Pers Disord
Assunto da revista:
PSICOLOGIA
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PSIQUIATRIA
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TRANSTORNOS MENTAIS
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Alemanha
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos