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Seth A. Brown

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First published in Psychiatry Research Communications, v4i2 (Jun 2024) published by Elsevier B.V. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psycom.2024.100176

Document Type

Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Keywords

Attitudes, Attribution questionnaire, Emotional, Gender, Mental illness, Vignettes

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Psychiatry Research Communications

Volume

4

Issue

2

Abstract

Despite high public stigma towards individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), no research has examined whether stigma differs among the various proposed BPD subtypes. The primary purpose of this research was to examine two potential contributors to stigma towards individuals with BPD: 1) gender, and 2) BPD subtype of the individuals. The three subtypes utilized in this study were emotional, low anxiety, and inhibited (Sleuwaegen, 2018). A total of 415 participants read 1 of 6 randomly assigned vignettes about an individual and then completed the Attribution Questionnaire which encompasses 6 aspects of stigma. Male individuals (featured in a vignette) led to greater overall and 5 aspects of stigma than female individuals. Higher public stigma was also expressed towards individuals with the emotional subtype for overall and 4 aspects of stigma than the other subtypes. The aggression portrayed in the emotional subtype may be a particularly worthy area of investigation, given the potential for over-appraisal of threat to one's personal safety. The findings here suggest that accurate portrayals of BPD need to be infused in education or contact anti-stigma interventions.

Department

Department of Psychology

Original Publication Date

6-1-2024

Object Description

1 PDF File

DOI of published version

10.1016/j.psycom.2024.100176

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Copyright

©2024 The Author. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync/ 4.0/).

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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