Κατεύθυνση Προαγωγή ψυχικής υγείας - Πρόληψη ψυχιατρικών διαταραχών
Library of the School of Health Sciences

2021-03-14

2021

Petraki Georgia

Μαρίνα Οικονόμου, Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Μαρία Βλασσοπούλου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Ιωάννης Μαλογιάννης, Επιστημονικός Συνεργάτης, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ

Διερεύνηση του κοινωνικού στίγματος σε μεταναστευτικούς πληθυσμούς

Greek

Invegistation of social stigma at refugee populations

Prejudice and the stigma it entails have detrimental consequences for groups such as
refugees, the mentally ill and those suffering from transmitted diseases. Therefore,
further research into aspects of the phenomenon becomes imperative in order to
design targeted social interventions to reduce stigma against minority and
marginalized groups. The aim of our research was to examine manifestations of
prejudice such as the desire for social distance and prejudicial attitudes against groups
of refugees, mentally ill and covid-19 patients with dimensions such as the capacity
for empathy, the feeling of realistic and symbolic threat towards refugees as well as a
set of socio-demographic characteristics of the sample. The study involved 228
women and 75 men, aged 17 to 75 years who answered the questionnaires Prejudicial
Attitudes Survey, Realistic / Symbolic Threat Scale, Social Distance Scale,
Interpersonal Reactivity Index and some socio-demographic questions. The results
showed a greater degree of social distance from the mentally ill than the other groups while a strong positive linear correlation emerged between realistic/symbolic threat
and the desire for social distance from refugees. At the same time, no strong
correlation was confirmed between empathy and stigma manifestations between the
three study groups. In addition, the feeling of realistic threat seemed to be responsible
for more than half of the percentage of social distance from refugees and for a smaller
percentage of prejudicial attitudes towards refugees, with the symbolic one following
only a small percentage. A particularly interesting finding of our research was
symbolic threat's towards refugees liability for a percentage of social distance from
the mentally ill as well as realistic threat's towards refugees liability for a percentage
of social distance from covid-19 patients. Results provide further empirical
documentation of the relationship between feelings of realistic and symbolic threat
and manifestations of prejudice targeting refugee populations, while highlighting the
importance of feelings of realistic/symbolic threat to stigmatized groups beyond
refugees.

Health Sciences

Stigma, Prejudice, Social distance, Realistic/Symbolic threat, Empathy

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