- 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 argues that an understanding of social identity processes is critical to understand when and how stigma affects health. This chapter presents a social identity analysis of the relationship between stigma and health and starts from the premise that it is particularly difficult for individuals who belong to stigmatized groups to derive a positive identity from their social group memberships. However, when individuals turn to the stigmatized group, identify with it, and draw social support from others within it, their health will be buffered against some of the negative consequences of discrimination because group memberships—and the social identities that are derived from them—act as psychological resources. Perceptions of the broader sociostructural context that affect appraisals of discrimination and coping with stigma play an important role in determining whether the curing properties of group memberships are unlocked, turning the curse of belonging to a stigmatized group into a cure.
Keywords: group-based discrimination, social identity approach, self-categorization, pervasiveness of discrimination, legitimacy of discrimination, group boundary permeability, social cure
Jolanda Jetten School of Psychology The University of Queensland St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
S. Alexander Haslam School of Psychology The University of Queensland St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Tegan Cruwys, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Nyla R. Branscombe, Department of Psychology, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 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
