Disfigurement: Psychosocial Impact and Coping

Sreedhar, Krishna

doi:10.2174/1874372200903010054

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“…Second, as participants were instructed to imagine a FD rather than to simply look at it, some variations may have occurred. We preferred these settings to avoid restricting the typology to one specific visible difference because FD comprises a wide range of conditions (Krishna, 2009). These variations were not supposed to impact the structure of the typology but rather the intensity and type of affective states elicited.…”

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(Un)veiling distinct feelings: A typology of affective reactions while meeting people with facial disfigurement for the first time.

Rasset¹,

Mange²,

Montalan³

2024

Stigma and Health

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This research aims to better understand the affective dimension in the public stigma of people with facial difference (FD) by identifying the perceivers’ various affective reactions to FD and by grouping them in a relevant typology. In a first qualitative step (N = 47), a vignette study based on a self-presentation paradigm was used to get participants to generate a comprehensive list of the affective states they may feel when they first meet people with FD. In a second quantitative step (N = 385), a questionnaire composed of the formerly generated affective states was proposed to other participants so as to statistically select the most relevant dimensions. A comprehensive list of 65 partially overlapping affective states—including 72 that have emerged in the first study and two others coming from previous research—were clustered in six factors via an exploratory factor analysis in the second study. The factors were named as follows: “sympathy-related,” “anxiety- and embarrassment-related,” “surprise-related,” “hostility-related,” “neutrality-related,” and “disgust-related.” This 6-factor structure was confirmed in a typology reduced to 18 affective states via a confirmatory factor analysis. This research offers a concise and complete panel of the ambivalent affective reactions to FD.

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(Un)veiling distinct feelings: A typology of affective reactions while meeting people with facial disfigurement for the first time.

Rasset¹,

Mange²,

Montalan³

2024

Stigma and Health

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“…Researchers struggle to define Facial difference (FD). FD usually tends to be defined biomedically with emphasis placed on individual impairment (Katz et al, 2000;Krishna, 2009;Rakic et al, 2018). However, FD is not only an individual experience (Atkinson et al, 2020).…”

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Towards a better understanding of the social stigma of facial difference

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Medical skin camouflage: a recovery intervention for female prisoners who self‐harm?

Walker

Shaw

Ranote

et al. 2014

Criminal Behav Ment Health

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Women prisoners comprise 5% of the prison population and are far more likely to inflict harm directly on their bodies than women in the community or male prisoners. Their self-harm challenges the criminal justice system, not least because it may be life threatening and is a predictor of an inflated risk of suicide. Detailed studies of self-harm in prison populations are few, but recent research found that cutting and scratching were the most frequent self-harming methods and, particularly among women in prison, self-strangulation was common, followed by hanging (Hawton et al. 2013). The Hawton group also showed that rates of self-harm by women prisoners are more than ten times higher than among male prisoners (Hawton et al. 2013). Women prisoners also appear to have suffered higher levels of prior psychiatric contacts, alcohol and drug misuse, physical and sexual abuse than their male counterparts (Ministry of Justice, 2012a; 2012b). Healthcare services have significantly improved the management of acute self-harm crises in the community and prison service, but there has been little focus on the recovery from self-harm and those who have to live with the scars that are left behind. The authors argue that female prisoners with self-inflicted scarring may experience psychological distress owing to perceived disfigurement. This can disturb quality of life and capacity to participate in activities such as work and social events in the prison environment and after release. The authors suggest that for those female prisoners with permanent or chronic disfigurement from self-harm, the use of medical skin camouflage can help them to adjust to

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Disfigurement: Psychosocial Impact and Coping

Cited by 12 publications

References 35 publications

(Un)veiling distinct feelings: A typology of affective reactions while meeting people with facial disfigurement for the first time.

(Un)veiling distinct feelings: A typology of affective reactions while meeting people with facial disfigurement for the first time.

Towards a better understanding of the social stigma of facial difference

Medical skin camouflage: a recovery intervention for female prisoners who self‐harm?

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