- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health
- Dedication
- About the Editors
- Preface
- Contributors
- Stigma and Its Implications for Health: Introduction and Overview
- Physical Health Disparities and Stigma: Race, Sexual Orientation, and Body Weight
- Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Health Inequality
- Power, Status, and Stigma: Their Implications for Health
- Stigma, Social Identity Threat, and Health
- Structural Stigma and Health
- Discriminating Ecologies: A Life History Approach to Stigma and Health
- Segregation, Stigma, and Stratification: A Biosocial Model
- Racial Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Health
- Patient Stigma, Medical Interactions, and Health Care Disparities: A Selective Review
- Interpersonal Discrimination and Physical Health
- Biopsychosocial Mechanisms Linking Discrimination to Health: A Focus on Social Cognition
- Neural and Cardiovascular Pathways from Stigma to Suboptimal Health
- Affective Reactions as Mediators of the Relationship Between Stigma and Health
- When Stigma Is Concealable: The Costs and Benefits for Health
- Social Identity, Stigma, and Health
- Social Stigma and Health: An Identity-Based Motivation Perspective
- Parenting as a Buffer That Deters Discrimination and Race-Related Stressors from “Getting Under the Skin”: Theories, Findings, and Future Directions
- Perceived Racial Discrimination and Health Behavior: Mediation and Moderation
- Stigma, Health, and Individual Differences
- Getting Underneath the Power of “Contact”: Revisiting the Fundamental Lever of Stigma as a Social Network Phenomenon
- Reducing Physical Illness Stigma: Insights from the Mental Illness Arena
- Public Health with a Punch: Fear, Stigma, and Hard-Hitting Media Campaigns
- Public Health and Social Justice: An Argument Against Stigma as a Tool of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Stigma and the “Social Epidemic” of HIV: Understanding Bidirectional Mechanisms of Risk and Resilience
- Sexual Minority Stigma and Health
- The Negative and Bidirectional Effects of Weight Stigma on Health
- Mental and Physical Health Consequences of the Stigma Associated with Mental Illnesses
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter provides an overview of how emotions can contribute to poorer health among stigmatized populations. First, it describes some of the primary affective responses that stigmatized individuals might experience, including externalizing emotions, uncertainty, and anxious affect. These affective responses can occur as a result of interacting with individuals who display subtle or overt signs of bias or perceiving a system as unfair, or they can occur from expectations based on prior experiences that shape perception. Second, this chapter reviews how these affective states may alter underlying biological processes to directly influence health. Finally, it examines indirect pathways whereby emotion processes potentiate health-damaging behaviors, such as poor eating habits, restless sleep, excessive alcohol and drug abuse, and risky behavior. Overall, research in this area suggests that affective experiences resulting from stigmatization can change biology and behavior in ways that can ultimately lead to poor health.
Keywords: Affect, Discrimination, Cardiovascular reactivity, Emotion, Health, Psychobiology, Neuroendocrinology, Race, Social neuroscience
Wendy Berry Mendes, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Keely A. Muscatell, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health
- Dedication
- About the Editors
- Preface
- Contributors
- Stigma and Its Implications for Health: Introduction and Overview
- Physical Health Disparities and Stigma: Race, Sexual Orientation, and Body Weight
- Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Health Inequality
- Power, Status, and Stigma: Their Implications for Health
- Stigma, Social Identity Threat, and Health
- Structural Stigma and Health
- Discriminating Ecologies: A Life History Approach to Stigma and Health
- Segregation, Stigma, and Stratification: A Biosocial Model
- Racial Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Health
- Patient Stigma, Medical Interactions, and Health Care Disparities: A Selective Review
- Interpersonal Discrimination and Physical Health
- Biopsychosocial Mechanisms Linking Discrimination to Health: A Focus on Social Cognition
- Neural and Cardiovascular Pathways from Stigma to Suboptimal Health
- Affective Reactions as Mediators of the Relationship Between Stigma and Health
- When Stigma Is Concealable: The Costs and Benefits for Health
- Social Identity, Stigma, and Health
- Social Stigma and Health: An Identity-Based Motivation Perspective
- Parenting as a Buffer That Deters Discrimination and Race-Related Stressors from “Getting Under the Skin”: Theories, Findings, and Future Directions
- Perceived Racial Discrimination and Health Behavior: Mediation and Moderation
- Stigma, Health, and Individual Differences
- Getting Underneath the Power of “Contact”: Revisiting the Fundamental Lever of Stigma as a Social Network Phenomenon
- Reducing Physical Illness Stigma: Insights from the Mental Illness Arena
- Public Health with a Punch: Fear, Stigma, and Hard-Hitting Media Campaigns
- Public Health and Social Justice: An Argument Against Stigma as a Tool of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Stigma and the “Social Epidemic” of HIV: Understanding Bidirectional Mechanisms of Risk and Resilience
- Sexual Minority Stigma and Health
- The Negative and Bidirectional Effects of Weight Stigma on Health
- Mental and Physical Health Consequences of the Stigma Associated with Mental Illnesses
- Index
