Search Results

seeking help for a mental illness). Personal stigma reflects an individual’s own attitudes toward a person with or seeking help for a mental illness ( Griffiths, Christensen, Jorm, Evans, & Groves, 2004 ). In contrast, perceived public stigma includes stereotypes, discrimination, or prejudice that the

identified as a potential barrier. Stigma Stigma has been defined as existing in two forms: public and self-stigma ( Corrigan, 2004 ). Public stigma is an external form of stigma referring to the belief that society deems an individual possessing certain traits or behaviors as socially unacceptable or

by others, also known as public stigma, is described as an individual’s perception of discrimination or stereotypes from the public to a stigmatized group ( Corrigan, 2004 ). When investigating public stigma in student-athletes, Kaier, Cromer, Johnson, Strunk, and Davis ( 2015 ) found student

timely and appropriate help ( DeLenardo & Terrion, 2014 ; Lopez & Levy, 2013 ). Stigma accounts for 66% of the variance in mental health help-seeking attitudes in student-athletes ( Wahto, Swift, & Whipple, 2016 ). There are three types of stigma. Perceived public stigma (i.e., stigmatization by

experiences of self-stigma and public-stigma, and underlying perfectionistic traits. Stigma—a multidimensional construct—is an identified barrier to mental-health help-seeking in samples of athletes and non-athletes (e.g.,  Clement et al., 2015 ; Evans et al., 2011 ; Gulliver, Griffiths, & Christensen, 2010

According to NHS England ( 2020 ), one in four adults will experience some form of mental ill health during their lifetime. Despite the prevalence of mental ill health, there is a long-standing public stigma attached to mental illness and toward those suffering with its affects ( Bauman, 2016

interpersonal interactions; it occurs in several interrelated forms on multiple levels of an individual’s ecology ( Bos et al., 2013 ; Myre et al., 2021 ). Bos et al. ( 2013 ) illustrates stigma manifesting in four dynamically interrelated ways: structural stigma, self-stigma, public stigma levels, and stigma

; Corrigan, 2004 ). Vogel et al. ( 2005 ) found that SSOSH scores were related to measures of public stigma (from .46 to .48), attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help (from −.54 to −.63), and willingness to seek counseling (from −.34 to −.38), thus supporting the convergent validity of the

symptoms, social anxiety, and eating disorder symptoms increasingly more than their male counterparts ( Gorczynski, Coyle, et al., 2017 ). Previous research has highlighted that athletes have shown greater perceived public stigma compared with nonathletes, while public stigma, self-stigma, and lack of MHL