• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: Depression stigma
  • Beteiligte: Roth, Christopher [Verfasser:in]; Schwardmann, Peter [Verfasser:in]; Tripodi, Egon [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: [München]: Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190, [2024]
  • Erschienen in: Discussion paper ; 499
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 83 Seiten); Illustrationen
  • Sprache: Englisch
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  • Schlagwörter: depression ; stigma ; information ; psychotherapy ; Graue Literatur
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  • Beschreibung: Throughout history, people with mental illness have been discriminated against and stigmatized. Our experiment provides a new measure of perceived depression stigma and then investigates the causal effect of perceived stigma on help-seeking in a sample of 1,844 Americans suffering from depression. A large majority of our participants overestimate the extent of stigma associated with depression. In contrast to prior correlational evidence, lowering perceived social stigma through an information intervention leads to a reduction in the demand for psychotherapy. A mechanism experiment reveals that this information increases optimism about future mental health, thereby reducing the perceived need for therapy.
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