Open AccessExperienced and anticipated discrimination against people with schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Ivona Milacic-Vidojevic,
Dragana Djuric-Jocic,
Oliver Tošković
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
psihologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1451-9283
pISSN - 0048-5705
DOI - 10.2298/psi1102117m
Subject(s) - psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , stigma (botany) , social discrimination , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , population , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics
Aim of this research was to describe the nature, direction and severity of anticipated and experienced discrimination reported by people with schizophrenia. We applied interview to 50 patients with diagnosis of schizophrenia in two psychiatric hospitals in Belgrade. Discrimination was measured with discrimination and stigma scale (DISC) which produce 3 subscores, positive experienced discrimination, negative experienced discrimination and anticipated discrimination. The same scale was used in cross-cultural research in 27 european countries. Results have shown that participants from Serbia do not recognize discrimination in all areas of life equally. The discrimination recognized is more frequentlly negative then positive and is associated with existentially important realms of life. Due to anticipated discrimination participants in our study prevent themselves from looking for a close relationship. Anticipated discrimination could not be predicted on the grounds of experienced, positive or negative discrimination