Beta
242683

Social stigma and its relationship to social and psychological stress among families of mentally disabled

Article

Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the level of feelings of social stigma, and its relationship with stress, among families of the mentally disabled. It also aimed to determine the differences in feelings of social stigma and stress in Saudi and Egyptian societies, A descriptive study was conducted using a questionnaire of a non-probability snowball sampling technique. A sample of (109), in Egypt (59) and Saudi Arabia (50). The results of the study indicated that The level of feeling of social stigma in the sampling was Moderate, while it was weak in the Saudi sample, and Moderate in the Egyptian sample. and also indicated that there is a statistically significant positive relationship between a social stigma and both social stress, psychological stress among families of the mentally disabled in the sample, in addition to the presence of statistically significant differences between Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the feeling of social stigma, social stress, and psychological stress and all of them In favor of Egypt, The results indicated that there is a poor statistically significant relationship between feelings of social stigma, stress, and some demographic characteristics of the disabled in both Saudi and Egyptian samples.

DOI

10.21608/ejsw.2022.119809.1155

Keywords

Social stigma, social stress, psychological stress

Authors

First Name

Hanaa

Last Name

Shlapy

MiddleName

Esmael

Affiliation

Social Casework Department - Faculty of Social Work- Helwan University - Cairo - Egypt.

Email

dr.hanaaes@gmail.com

City

Alreyad

Orcid

0000-0001-5446-5493

Volume

14

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

34824

Issue Date

2022-06-01

Receive Date

2022-02-03

Publish Date

2022-06-01

Page Start

81

Page End

104

Print ISSN

2356-9204

Online ISSN

2356-9212

Link

https://ejsw.journals.ekb.eg/article_242683.html

Detail API

https://ejsw.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=242683

Order

4

Type

Empirical Articles

Type Code

628

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Social Work

Publication Link

https://ejsw.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

-

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023