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Change in internalized stigma and social functioning among persons diagnosed with severe mental illness
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Change in internalized stigma and social functioning among persons diagnosed with severe mental illness

Philip Theodore Yanos, Michelle Leigh West, Lauren Gonzales, Stephen Mark Smith, David Roe and Paul Henry Lysaker
Psychiatry Research, Vol.200(2-3), pp.1032-1034
2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2012.06.017

Abstract

Stigma (Social psychology) Mental illness Symptoms
This study examined the relationship between change in internalized stigma and social functioning over time. Thirty-five individuals with severe mental illness completed measures of self-stigma, social functioning and symptoms at baseline, 4 months, and 7 months. Change in self-stigma was significantly negatively related to change in social functioning, controlling for negative symptoms.
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