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Psykisk ohälsa: En kvalitativ studie om attityder och stigmatisering av psykisk ohälsa
Dalarna University, School of Culture and Society.
Dalarna University, School of Culture and Society.
2022 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
: A qualitative study on attitudes and stigma of mental illness (English)
Abstract [sv]

Psykisk ohälsa är ett begrepp som vi människor ofta kommer i kontakt med i vårat dagliga liv. I Sverige är många människor sjukskrivna med just psykisk ohälsa och syftet med vår studie är att undersöka hur attityder och stigmatisering av dessa individer ser ut bland organisationerna. Detta är en kvalitativ studie där intervjuer skett med fem olika organisationer som på ett eller annat sätt kommer i kontakt med psykisk ohälsa. För att begränsa vårat arbete har vi valt att använda oss av tre begrepp: psykiska besvär, psykiatriska funktionshinder, och psykossjukdomar.

Teorier som används för att analysera vårat resultat är Erving Goffmans stigmateori och Thomas, J. Scheffs teori kring primär och sekundär stämpling och ”the sick role”. Vidare har vi använt den kvalitativa forskningsmetoden och utfört en kvalitativ intervju med semistrukturerade frågor. Genom semistrukturerade frågor har vi fått utrymme att ställa uppföljningsfrågor och informanterna har kunnat svara mer fritt. Den insamlade empirin bearbetades i en tematisk analys med förutbestämda teman.

Resultatet visar att de fem organisationer som intervjuats i studien har liknande erfarenheter kring stigmatiserade attityder mot de tre grupperna. Det framkommer att personer som lider av psykossjukdomar stigmatiseras oftare än personer som har lättare psykiska besvär. Resultatet visar också att organisationerna menar att det blir svårare att komma tillbaka till en vardag med arbete och sociala relationer ju mer en människa har stigmatiserats av omgivning och samhälle.

 

Abstract [en]

Mental illness is a term that we come in contact with in our daily life. In Sweden, a lot of people are on sick leave due to mental illness and the focus of our study is to research how the attitudes and stigma look like for these individuals inside of the organizations. This is a qualitative study where five different organizations have come in contact with mental illness. To limit our work we have chosen to use three terms that follows mental illness: psychiatrics, functionality, and psychosis.

Theories that has been used to analyze our results is Erving Goffman’s stigma and Thomas, J. Scheff’s theory around primary and secondary labeling, as well as “the sick role”. Furthermore we have used the qualitative research method and performed a qualitative interview with semi-structured questions. Through the semi-structured questions we managed to get space to ask follow-up questions and the informants were able to answer more freely. The collected empirical research was processed in a thematic analysis with predetermined themes.

The results shows that the five organizations that were interviewed in the study have similar experiences around stigmatized attitudes toward the three groups. It appears that people who suffer from psychosis are stigmatized more often than people with lighter mental issues. The results also shows that the organizations wants to tell us that it will get harder to find the way back to a life with social relations and work the more a person has been stigmatized due to surroundings and society.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022.
Keywords [en]
Mental illness, Stigma, attitudes, RSMH, schizophrenia association, Mind, The Swedish Fountain House, StigmaWatch
Keywords [sv]
psykisk ohälsa, stigmatisering, attityder, RSMH, schizofreniförbundet, Mind, Sveriges Fontänhus, StigmaWatch
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Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-41845OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-41845DiVA, id: diva2:1681483
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Sociology
Available from: 2022-07-06 Created: 2022-07-06

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