Self-compassion mitigates the cognitive, affective, and social impact of courtesy stigma on parents of autistic children.

Purpose: Due to the courtesy stigma of autism spectrum disorder, many parents of autistic children are devaluated and discriminated against by the public. Despite the high prevalence of this courtesy stigma, very few studies have examined its negative effects on parents of autistic children and explored the factors that may protect the parents from these negative effects. The present study utilized a 2-year, two-wave prospective longitudinal design to examine the associations of courtesy stigma with adverse cognitive (self-stigma), affective (depressive and anxiety symptoms), and social (parent-child and inter-parental conflicts) consequences for parents of autistic children and to test whether these associations would be moderated and mitigated by self-compassion.

The impact of perceived and internalised stigma on clinical and functional recovery among people with mental illness.

The present study aimed to develop and validate a conceptual model linking public and internalised stigma to recovery attitudes, processes and outcomes among people with mental illness. Specifically, we sought to examine whether perceptions of public stigma (i.e.

The impact of stigma on engaged living and life satisfaction among people with mental illness in Hong Kong.

Purpose: The present study aimed to investigate how the interpersonal (experienced discrimination) and intrapersonal (anticipated stigma and internalized stigma) manifestations of psychiatric stigma may affect engaged living and life satisfaction among people with mental illness. In this study, we developed and evaluated a conceptual model to clarify how experienced discrimination may lead to anticipated stigma and internalized stigma and thereby impede engaged living and reduce life satisfaction.

Methods: A total of 205 Hong Kong Chinese people with mental illness completed standardized questionnaire measures of experienced discrimination, anticipated stigma, internalized stigma, engaged living, and life satisfaction.

Longitudinal impact of parents' discrimination experiences on children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms: A 2-year study of families of autistic children.

Although many parents of autistic children are routinely discriminated against, the potential impact of this discrimination on their parenting processes and child-rearing outcomes has seldom been investigated. The present study addressed this gap in the literature by examining the longitudinal associations of parents' discrimination experiences with children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms among families of autistic children and testing whether these associations would be mediated by parental depression, harsh parenting, and coparenting conflict. On three occasions across 2 years (i.

Differential Impact of Experienced and Anticipated Discrimination on Sleep and Health Among Sexual Minorities.

For many lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals, stigma may represent a psychosocial stressor that can disrupt sleep and impair health. The present study tested a stigma model of sleep health to examine whether experienced and anticipated discrimination, as well as associated primal threat, would affect sleep quality and, in turn, physical and mental health among LGB individuals. A total of 401 LGB individuals (201 women and 200 men; mean age = 27.

The impact of experienced discrimination and self-stigma on sleep and health-related quality of life among individuals with mental disorders in Hong Kong.

Purpose: For many individuals with mental disorders, stigma may represent a potent stressor that can disrupt sleep and impair health and quality of life. In this study, we tested a stigma model of sleep health, hypothesizing that public stigma (as indicated by experienced discrimination) and internalized stigma (as indicated by self-stigma content and process) would affect sleep and, in turn, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among individuals with mental disorders.

Methods: A total of 282 individuals with mental disorders from Hong Kong, China, completed questionnaire measures of experienced discrimination, self-stigma content and process, sleep disturbance, and physical and mental HRQoL.