Association between Internalized Stigma and Some Diagnostic Subgroups, Socio-demographic Variables, and Self-esteem Levels in Patients That Refer to the Psychiatry Clinic of an Education and Research Hospital

This study was designed to investigate the associations between internalized stigma levels and socio-demographic variables, self-esteem levels, and some rigid bias in a patient sample which is divided into subgroups according to diagnostic categories of anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders and obsessive compulsive disorders.