Prejudice as Stress: Conceptual and Measurement Problems

Conceptual measurement framework for help-seeking for mental health problems

BACKGROUND Despite a high level of research, policy, and practice interest in help-seeking for mental health problems and mental disorders, there is currently no agreed and commonly used definition or conceptual measurement framework for help-seeking. METHODS A systematic review of research activity in the field was undertaken to investigate how help-seeking has been conceptualized and measur...

Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidence.

In this article the author reviews research evidence on the prevalence of mental disorders in lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGBs) and shows, using meta-analyses, that LGBs have a higher prevalence of mental disorders than heterosexuals. The author offers a conceptual framework for understanding this excess in prevalence of disorder in terms of minority stress--explaining that stigma, prejud...

Before the measurement of prejudice: early psychological and sociological papers on prejudice.

Given its renown, many psychologists and sociologists likely consider the publication of Gordon Allport's (1954/1979) seminal book The Nature of Prejudice as the inauguration of the psychological study of prejudice. However, we have uncovered rarely-cited, published papers (starting in 1830) that provide a wealth of speculation on prejudice even before psychologists/sociologists attempted to me...

Threat as Justification of Prejudice

Prejudice as Self-Control Failure

Research has suggested that whereas stereotypical attitudes may be automatically activated, the response to these stereotypes can be controlled. Anything that interferes with self-control may result in more biased behavior. The ego strength model hypothesizes that after exerting self-control, subsequent self-control performance will suffer. Hence, depletion of ego strength may lead to increased...