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

Abstract

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.