Georg Schomerus

Datos Biográficos

ID1733258
NOMBREGeorg Schomerus
NOMBRESGeorg
APELLIDOSchomerus
FIRMASCHOMERUS G
AFILIACIONESLeipzig University
ORCID0000-0002-6752-463X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS48
TOTAL DE CITAS10
TOTAL COMO AUTOR48
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Retrospectively appraised life changes since the German reunification and health

    Open AccessHahm, L Altweck et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    BACKGROUND: The German reunification (1989/1990) was a period of rapid socio-structural transformation, with heterogeneous consequences for work, finances, and personal life in East Germany. Drawing on Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, this study examined whether retrospectively appraised changes since the reunification are associated with later-life health and whether psychosocial resources show gender-specific indirect associations. METHO…

  • Exploring the stigma of mental illness in life worlds of different economic pressure

    Open AccessSven Speerforck, C Helmert et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Introduction Little is known about how differences in economic pressure in life worlds shape understandings of mental illness and stigmatization toward people with mental illness. Methods We conducted an explorative study using five focus groups with three to five participants selected through purposive theoretical sampling. Each focus group represented a different life world (operationalized through shared occupational and sociopolitical life go…

  • Exploring adverse childhood experiences in the wake of system change – A natural experiment comparing East and West Germany

    Open AccessThomas McLaren, Christine Ulke et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2026

    BACKGROUND: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have negative effects on individuals necessitating examination to discern contributing conditions. The use of quasi-experimental settings, arising from socio-political changes, offers retrospective insight into the macro-level context. OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence of ACEs in the separate macro-systems of both German states, as well as the influence of the socio-political system change due t…

  • Mental Health Knowledge, Stigma towards mental illness, and Help-Seeking among adolescents in secondary schools in Kampala, Uganda

    Open AccessZenah Nantumbwe, Rosco Kasujja et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2026

    Mental health disorders are prevalent among adolescents and evidence suggests that stigma, poor mental health literacy and access are key barriers to help-seeking for mental health difficulties in adolescence and throughout life.The study purpose is to assess existing; mental health knowledge, stigma and help-seeking behaviour among adolescents in Uganda.A total of 889 secondary school students in Kampala, completed standardized self-report quest…

  • Factor structure and predictors of causal beliefs about seven mental illnesses among the Singapore general population

    Open AccessYoke Boon Tan, Hong Tay et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Knowledge about the causes of mental illness is a crucial component of mental health literacy. Poor understanding of the etiology of mental illness can lead to stigmatizing behaviors and hinder access to appropriate help. The current cross-sectional study examined the general population's causal beliefs about seven mental illnesses and explored the factor structure of the revised causal beliefs scale. Methods: Four thousand one hund…

  • Decreasing the self-stigma of substance use disorder through disclosure and recovery narratives

    Patrick W Corrigan, Virginia Spicknall et al.ARTICLEStigma and Health2025

  • Stigmatization of people with mental illness – a matter of milieu-specific worldviews? Results from a population-based survey in Germany

    Open AccessJenny Spahlholz, Eva Baumann et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    Our findings suggest that socio-cultural and socioeconomic dimensions of the society can be used for both describing heterogeneous societies and illuminating the underlying social structure of stigma. In addition to making blind spots more visible (i.e., schizophrenia), milieu-specific knowledge could be useful in deciding which intervention components are most appropriate for which milieu groups and how to apply them successfully

  • Stigmatisation of survivors of political persecution in the GDR

    Open AccessTobias Schott, Marie Blume et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    Even more than three decades after the reunification of Germany, people with mental health problems and an experience of SED injustice in the GDR still experience stigmatizing attitudes on the part of those treating them. Stigmatizing attitudes can affect treatment and care

  • Cognitive frames of depression and their association with accessibility to mental health communication

    Open AccessAnna Freytag, Eva Baumann et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2024

    Introduction Depression is a globally prevalent mental disorder; however, the stigmatization of individuals experiencing depression remains a significant challenge. The effectiveness of mental health promotion efforts and anti-stigma messages is contingent upon individuals' existing beliefs and the stigmatizing potential of their attitudes. Thus, understanding how individuals perceive mental disorders such as depression, as well as their communic…

  • The help-seeking process and predictors of mental health care use among individuals with depressive symptoms

    Open AccessVanessa C Jürgensen, Vanessa Juergensen et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Purpose: The goal of the study was to identify the most important influences on professional healthcare use of people with depressive symptoms. We incorporated findings from research areas of health behaviors, stigma, and motivation to predict the help-seeking process variables from a wide range of personal factors and attitudes. Methods: A sample of 1,368 adults with untreated depressive symptoms participated in an online survey with three-and s…

  • Media Coverage of Alcohol-Use Disorders in German Newspapers and Magazines

    Anna Freytag, Magdalena Rosset et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    Alcohol use disorders (AUD) are pressing social problems. News media play a key role in setting the agenda for the public discourse and framing these problems. They provide people affected and unaffected with health-related information on different facets of the disease and present the topic in various contexts. In doing so, they shape the public opinion and influence behaviors. On the basis of an explorative quantitative content analysis of N = …

  • The differential influence of self-construal on the effect of self-efficacy on the help-seeking process

    Open AccessThomas McLaren, F H Oosterhuis et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2024

    The study's findings, strengths, and limitations are discussed in relation to current research. Results indicate differential experiences of self-efficacy interventions based on individuals' self-construal. Moreover, varying associations among help-seeking variables suggest self-construal-based differences in their interrelationships. These findings highlight the importance of considering self-construal in health related research

  • Otherness and stigma

    Open AccessVanessa C Jürgensen, Mirjam Göbel et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2024

    Belief in a continuum of symptoms from mental health to mental illness (MI) has an impact on the social acceptance of people with MI. However, little is known about whether people's conception of MI itself and in particular how broad that conception is, has an impact on the social acceptance of individuals with MI or affects continuum beliefs. To address this research gap, it is necessary to capture and monitor public understanding of MI. Using 1…

  • Changes in stigma and population mental health literacy before and after the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessPaul Winkler, Benjamin Kunc et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2024

    The Covid-19 pandemic and related social restrictions have been associated with increased rates of mental health problems, prompting a global surge in interest in mental well-being, which might have had a positive effect on population mental health literacy (MHL). We aimed to compare levels of mental health related stigma among the Czech general adult population before and after the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as recognition of own mental health p…

  • Active psychoeducational components of antistigma interventions for untreated depressive symptoms

    Lina-Jolien Peter, Thomas McLaren et al.ARTICLEStigma and Health2024

  • Can ‘justified disapproval’ be separated from addiction stigma? An empirical focus is required

    James Morris, Johanna Leona Kummetat et al.ARTICLEAddiction Research & Theory2024

    Stigma is largely recognized as a harmful practice of social devaluation and discrimination, yet some scholars still advance arguments that stigma also serves an important disincentivizing force towards addictive behaviours. Whilst others counter that stigma is a fundamentally harmful process, a more nuanced call has been made for “justified disapproval” as a beneficial normative force to be separated from addiction stigma. The legitimacy of such…

  • Gender-related stigma toward individuals with a history of sexual or physical violence in childhood

    Open AccessTheresia Rechenberg, Toni Fleischer et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Findings reflect greater stigma toward male victims and survivors of sexual violence than female ones. Men had a greater tendency to stigmatize - especially toward their same-gender peers. Socially ingrained gender roles may act as a basis for different communication cultures and the notion of victim-perpetrator constellations in which males are not envisaged as victims

  • How socio-political change is associated with the number of individually reported negative life events

    Open AccessHahm, L Altweck et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 39

    BACKGROUND: Socio-political change often leads to disruptions in employment and social networks, which can exacerbate health issues and increase mortality rates. These consequences are likely observed as an increase in negative life events (NLEs), serving as indicators of the broader social and health impacts. Using the German reunification in 1989/1990 as an example, this study investigates changes in reported numbers of NLEs and differences reg…

  • Explorative analyses on spatial differences in the desire for social distance toward people with mental illness in a diverging city

    Open AccessC Helmert, Sven Speerforck et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Introduction Stigma is an individual and societal process based on attitudes and power and relates to both spatial disparities and social distinction. In this study, we examined differences in desire for social distance toward people with mental illness within a city using social and spatial information. Methods ANOVAs and Scheffé post-hoc tests analyzed varying desires for social distance toward people with mental illness within Leipzig (East Ge…

  • Testing the mixed-blessings model

    Open AccessDaniel Dittrich, Kristina Dernbach et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023

    It is well established that emphasizing a biogenetic etiology of mental health problems in anti-stigma interventions inadvertently increases potentially stigmatizing attitudes. The “mixed-blessings” model suggests that biogenetic explanations and greater stigma are linked by essentialism. The present study tests this hypothesis experimentally. In this online experiment, 367 subjects read either a biogenetic or a psychosocial explanation for the e…

  • Why stigma matters in addressing alcohol harm

    Open AccessJames Morris, Georg SchomerusARTICLEDrug and Alcohol Review2023

    Alcohol problems are amongst the most stigmatised of conditions, resulting in multiple additional harms for people with alcohol use disorder. Alcohol stigma encompasses widely endorsed negative stereotypes leading to prejudice and discrimination towards people with alcohol use disorder. Self‐stigma further harms individuals through preventing and undermining recovery. The persistence of alcohol stigma highlights the limitations of an illness mode…

  • The effects of causal and self-efficacy beliefs on help-seeking for people with depressive complaints

    Open AccessThomas McLaren, Lina-Jolien Peter et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2023

    Background Only approximately a third of people with depressive symptoms seek professional health care. Furthermore, people labelled as mentally ill may experience stigmatisation, which can impede help-seeking behaviour. Aim To examine the effects of three vignette-based interventions endorsing biopsychosocial causal beliefs and strengthening self-efficacy on help-seeking intention and behaviour, as well as the predictive values of these variable…

  • Gender-Differential Association Between Loneliness and Alcohol Consumption

    Open AccessHamimatunnisa Johar, Seryan Atasoy et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Mental…2023

    Loneliness is an established risk factor for impaired health. However, the evidence of whether increased alcohol consumption is a coping mechanism to alleviate loneliness for both genders remains sparse. The cross-sectional study included 8898 men and 8910 women (mean age of 56.2 ± 11.5 years) from three population-based cohort studies in Germany (KORA-FF4, GHS, and SHIP. Daily alcohol consumption (g/day) was measured, and risky drinking was iden…

  • Self- and surrogate-seeking of information about mental health and illness in Germany

    Open AccessAnna Freytag, Eva Baumann et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Our study provides insights into the public's mental health information orientation. The findings may particularly guide strategies to improve mental health awareness and fill knowledge gaps in supporting informed decision-making and reducing stigma. Surrogate seekers appear to be an important and distinctive target group for mental health information provision. Depending on whether one wants to promote surrogate- or self-seeking seekers, differe…

  • The Seeking Mental Health Care model

    Open AccessThomas McLaren, Lina-Jolien Peter et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    German Clinical Trials Register: DRKS00023557. Registered 11 December 2020. World Health Organization, Universal Trial Number: U1111-1264-9954. Registered 16 February 2021