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Education-based stigma and discrimination among young adults not in 4-year college
BACKGROUND: Lower levels of education are strongly associated with negative health outcomes. The current study examined the degree to which those without a history of 4-year college attendance experience social stigmatization of their educational status and if these experiences are associated with m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8826660/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35135628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00737-4 |
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author | Meisel, Matthew K. Haikalis, Michelle Colby, Suzanne M. Barnett, Nancy P. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Lower levels of education are strongly associated with negative health outcomes. The current study examined the degree to which those without a history of 4-year college attendance experience social stigmatization of their educational status and if these experiences are associated with mental health symptoms. METHODS: Data was obtained from 488 emerging adults who never attended 4-year college using Qualtrics Panels. RESULTS: 79.4% of participants agreed to one of the six statements that not attending 4-year college is stigmatized, and 71.8% endorsed experiencing at least one form of discrimination. Higher levels of education-related stigma and more frequent experiences of education-related discrimination was associated with greater past-month anxiety and depression symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: These findings could serve to increase awareness regarding the unique and significant discrimination faced by young adults who do not attend 4-year college and identify specific areas of intervention that can help these young adults cope with the effects of stigma and discrimination. |
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spelling | pubmed-88266602022-02-10 Education-based stigma and discrimination among young adults not in 4-year college Meisel, Matthew K. Haikalis, Michelle Colby, Suzanne M. Barnett, Nancy P. BMC Psychol Research BACKGROUND: Lower levels of education are strongly associated with negative health outcomes. The current study examined the degree to which those without a history of 4-year college attendance experience social stigmatization of their educational status and if these experiences are associated with mental health symptoms. METHODS: Data was obtained from 488 emerging adults who never attended 4-year college using Qualtrics Panels. RESULTS: 79.4% of participants agreed to one of the six statements that not attending 4-year college is stigmatized, and 71.8% endorsed experiencing at least one form of discrimination. Higher levels of education-related stigma and more frequent experiences of education-related discrimination was associated with greater past-month anxiety and depression symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: These findings could serve to increase awareness regarding the unique and significant discrimination faced by young adults who do not attend 4-year college and identify specific areas of intervention that can help these young adults cope with the effects of stigma and discrimination. BioMed Central 2022-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8826660/ /pubmed/35135628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00737-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Meisel, Matthew K. Haikalis, Michelle Colby, Suzanne M. Barnett, Nancy P. Education-based stigma and discrimination among young adults not in 4-year college |
title | Education-based stigma and discrimination among young adults not in 4-year college |
title_full | Education-based stigma and discrimination among young adults not in 4-year college |
title_fullStr | Education-based stigma and discrimination among young adults not in 4-year college |
title_full_unstemmed | Education-based stigma and discrimination among young adults not in 4-year college |
title_short | Education-based stigma and discrimination among young adults not in 4-year college |
title_sort | education-based stigma and discrimination among young adults not in 4-year college |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8826660/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35135628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00737-4 |
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