TY - JOUR
T1 - Automatically activated shame reactions and perceived legitimacy of discrimination
T2 - A longitudinal study among people with mental illness
AU - Rüsch, Nicolas
AU - Todd, Andrew R.
AU - Bodenhausen, Galen V.
AU - Olschewski, Manfred
AU - Corrigan, Patrick W.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to all participants. We thank Karen Batia, Whitney Key, Norine McCarten, Patrick Michaels, Karina Powell, Anita Rajah, Abigail Wassel, Sandra Wilkniss, and the staff of Thresholds and Heartland Alliance in Chicago for assistance with recruitment and data collection. We thank N. Sriram and Tony Greenwald for assistance in designing and implementing the BIAT; and two reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this manuscript. Our work was supported by a Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship of the European Union to Nicolas Rüsch and by funding from NIAAA, NIMH, and the Fogarty International Center to Patrick Corrigan.
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - Perceived legitimacy of discrimination shapes reactions to mental illness stigma among stigmatized individuals. We assessed deliberately endorsed versus automatic shame-related reactions to mental illness as predictors of change in perceived legitimacy of discrimination over six months among 75 people with mental illness. Automatically activated shame-related associations with mental illness were measured using the Brief Implicit Association Test, deliberately endorsed beliefs via self-report. Controlling for depression and perceived stigma, stronger baseline automatic shame-related associations, but not deliberately endorsed beliefs, predicted higher perceived legitimacy of discrimination after six months. Automatically activated shame reactions may increase vulnerability to mental illness stigma.
AB - Perceived legitimacy of discrimination shapes reactions to mental illness stigma among stigmatized individuals. We assessed deliberately endorsed versus automatic shame-related reactions to mental illness as predictors of change in perceived legitimacy of discrimination over six months among 75 people with mental illness. Automatically activated shame-related associations with mental illness were measured using the Brief Implicit Association Test, deliberately endorsed beliefs via self-report. Controlling for depression and perceived stigma, stronger baseline automatic shame-related associations, but not deliberately endorsed beliefs, predicted higher perceived legitimacy of discrimination after six months. Automatically activated shame reactions may increase vulnerability to mental illness stigma.
KW - Automaticity
KW - Discrimination
KW - Implicit Association Test
KW - Perceived legitimacy
KW - Shame
KW - Stigma
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jbtep.2009.10.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jbtep.2009.10.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 19897173
AN - SCOPUS:70649094220
SN - 0005-7916
VL - 41
SP - 60
EP - 63
JO - Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
JF - Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
IS - 1
ER -
