Perceived and Personal Mental Health Stigma in Latino and African American College Students
Mental health stigma occurs when people have negative thoughts and beliefs of those with mental health illnesses or mental health treatment. Mental health stigma is related to an assortment of negative outcomes including discrimination in housing and employment, reduced usage of mental health servic...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-02-01
|
| Series: | Frontiers in Public Health |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00049/full |
| _version_ | 1818243690137649152 |
|---|---|
| author | Stacie Craft DeFreitas Travis Crone Martha DeLeon Anna Ajayi |
| author_facet | Stacie Craft DeFreitas Travis Crone Martha DeLeon Anna Ajayi |
| author_sort | Stacie Craft DeFreitas |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Mental health stigma occurs when people have negative thoughts and beliefs of those with mental health illnesses or mental health treatment. Mental health stigma is related to an assortment of negative outcomes including discrimination in housing and employment, reduced usage of mental health services, and poor mental health outcomes. These implications may be particularly salient for ethnic minorities such as African Americans and Latinos who already suffer from other types of discrimination. This study examines perceived and personal mental health stigma in African American and Latino college students from a nontraditional university to help elucidate factors related to the development of mental health stigma. Students completed surveys concerning their stigma beliefs. African American students were found to have higher rates of mental health stigma than Latino students. Furthermore, anxiety about those with mental illness was related to greater mental health stigma for both groups. For African Americans, it was found that their perception of their ability to visibly identify those with mental illness was related to greater mental health stigma. These findings suggest that interventions to reduce mental health stigma in college students should target specific ethnic minority groups and focus on issues that are particularly salient to those communities. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-12T14:05:08Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-6ea9117c0747495d86e9c05ccf57c99b |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2296-2565 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-12T14:05:08Z |
| publishDate | 2018-02-01 |
| publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Frontiers in Public Health |
| spelling | doaj.art-6ea9117c0747495d86e9c05ccf57c99b2022-12-22T00:22:15ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652018-02-01610.3389/fpubh.2018.00049294726Perceived and Personal Mental Health Stigma in Latino and African American College StudentsStacie Craft DeFreitas0Travis Crone1Martha DeLeon2Anna Ajayi3Social Sciences, University of Houston–Downtown, Houston, TX, United StatesSocial Sciences, University of Houston–Downtown, Houston, TX, United StatesSocial Sciences, University of Houston–Downtown, Houston, TX, United StatesSocial Sciences, University of Houston–Downtown, Houston, TX, United StatesMental health stigma occurs when people have negative thoughts and beliefs of those with mental health illnesses or mental health treatment. Mental health stigma is related to an assortment of negative outcomes including discrimination in housing and employment, reduced usage of mental health services, and poor mental health outcomes. These implications may be particularly salient for ethnic minorities such as African Americans and Latinos who already suffer from other types of discrimination. This study examines perceived and personal mental health stigma in African American and Latino college students from a nontraditional university to help elucidate factors related to the development of mental health stigma. Students completed surveys concerning their stigma beliefs. African American students were found to have higher rates of mental health stigma than Latino students. Furthermore, anxiety about those with mental illness was related to greater mental health stigma for both groups. For African Americans, it was found that their perception of their ability to visibly identify those with mental illness was related to greater mental health stigma. These findings suggest that interventions to reduce mental health stigma in college students should target specific ethnic minority groups and focus on issues that are particularly salient to those communities.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00049/fullmental health stigmaethnic minorityLatinoAfrican Americanscollege students |
| spellingShingle | Stacie Craft DeFreitas Travis Crone Martha DeLeon Anna Ajayi Perceived and Personal Mental Health Stigma in Latino and African American College Students Frontiers in Public Health mental health stigma ethnic minority Latino African Americans college students |
| title | Perceived and Personal Mental Health Stigma in Latino and African American College Students |
| title_full | Perceived and Personal Mental Health Stigma in Latino and African American College Students |
| title_fullStr | Perceived and Personal Mental Health Stigma in Latino and African American College Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceived and Personal Mental Health Stigma in Latino and African American College Students |
| title_short | Perceived and Personal Mental Health Stigma in Latino and African American College Students |
| title_sort | perceived and personal mental health stigma in latino and african american college students |
| topic | mental health stigma ethnic minority Latino African Americans college students |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00049/full |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT staciecraftdefreitas perceivedandpersonalmentalhealthstigmainlatinoandafricanamericancollegestudents AT traviscrone perceivedandpersonalmentalhealthstigmainlatinoandafricanamericancollegestudents AT marthadeleon perceivedandpersonalmentalhealthstigmainlatinoandafricanamericancollegestudents AT annaajayi perceivedandpersonalmentalhealthstigmainlatinoandafricanamericancollegestudents |