Attitudes of individuals with chronic diseases towards members of ingroup and outgroup of healthy people

Authors

  • Yuliya S. Smirnova Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Yuliya V. Zaitseva Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

attitude, prejudice, stigma of chronic disease, social categorization, intergroup differentiation

Abstract

The process of social categorization on the basis of health status and its negative consequences (prejudice, stigmatization, discrimination) are considered in the article. The importance of studying of stigmatized minorityʼs attitudes towards members of ingroup and outgroup is argued. The results of empirical research of attitudes towards healthy people and people with chronic diseases are presented. The attitudesʼ structure and content as well as the differences depending on the degree of obviousness, heaviness and social significance of the disease for the individual are described. The attributive dimension in the structure of attitudes towards healthy and chronically ill people is considered. The results are discussed in the context of intergroup differentiation.

Author Biographies

  • Yuliya S. Smirnova, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (psychology), docent; associate professor at the department of psychology, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

  • Yuliya V. Zaitseva, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    masterʼs degree student at the department of psychology, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

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Published

2019-01-17

Issue

No. 1 (2018): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology

Section

Social Psychology

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How to Cite

[1]
Smirnova, Y.S. and Zaitseva, Y.V. 2019. Attitudes of individuals with chronic diseases towards members of ingroup and outgroup of healthy people. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology. 1 (Jan. 2019), 83–91.