Intrapsychic Effects of Stigma:

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Being stigmatized has intrapsychic consequences for the individual. Two aspects of the process by which these consequences occur are described: a breakdown of the personÆs systems of interpretation and valuation, which may leas to reality shock; and the reconstruction of those systems that take into account the stigmatized characteristic. The latter aspect is associated with frequently noted sequels to stigma, including identity reconstruction, changes in affinitive patterns, and revisions of long-range plans and goals. Key elements in both major aspects are the master-status character of stigma or, in other words, its being a status that takes precedence over all other; the widespread knowledge of stereotypes associated with a given stigma; and the actual and imagined responses of others. The data from an ethnographic study of homosexual community, but the interapsychic processes described may occur in conjunction with any stigma acquired after normative socialization, including stigmas resulting for a c...

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