Resisting the Stigma of Mental Illness

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LGBTQ+ Latino/a Young People’s Interpretations of Stigma and Mental Health: An Intersectional Minority Stress Perspective (2020, background): “By actively challenging anti-LGBTQ1 religious messages, LGBTQ1 Latino/a young adults are resisting intersectional minority stressors and stigma in forceful, agentic ways they argue promote their well-being (Thoits 2011).”
Resistance to sex work stigma (2018, background): “And the few studies that have examined resistance are largely limited to the individual social-psychological level (e.g. Thoits, 2011) and ignore the larger question of how stigma can be reduced or eliminated vis-à-vis an entire category of people (exceptions include Anspach, 1979; De Young, 1988;…”
The Social Development of Contingent Self-Worth in Sexual Minority Young Men: An Empirical Investigation of the “Best Little Boy in the World” Hypothesis (2013, background): “…one’s self-worth toward more assured, achievement-related domains when family support, others’ approval, God’s love, and personal virtue are uncertain shows an implicit, but significant, form of resisting stigma (Thoits, 2011), although not without potential interpersonal and health consequences.”
Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Population Health Inequalities (2013, unknown): “ming from active efforts to challenge and resist stigma.(81) Nevertheless, research has also in-”