Living With a Concealable Stigmatized Identity: The Impact of Anticipated Stigma, Centrality, Salience, and Cultural Stigma on Psychological Distress and Health
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- 2009
This journal article discusses how concealable stigmatized identities, like the history of incarceration, HIV status, and mental illnesses, impact people's psychological well-being and health. It also provides a conceptual framework to understand how possessing a concealable stigmatized identity affects psychological and physical distress.
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