Environmental Stigma
Resident Responses to Living in a Contaminated Area
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758305 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jie Zhuang (0000-0002-3332-2044, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, corresponding author), Jeff Cox (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA), M Cruz (0000-0002-5244-5461, Michigan State University), Shannon Cruz (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA), James W Dearing (0000-0002-4518-3870, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA), Joseph A Hamm (0000-0001-9250-3681, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA), Brad Upham (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA), Brad L Upham (0000-0003-4905-9145, Michigan State University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1322-1341 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764216657381 |
| PMID | 29628516 |
| OpenAlex | W2471561355 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 39 |
This article examined the extent to which residents living in the Midland-Saginaw-Bay City area in Eastern Michigan felt stigmatized due to industrial contamination. Seventy in-depth interviews were conducted with local residents, focusing on the extent to which they experienced three aspects of stigma-affective, cognitive, and behavioral. Results indicated that although some participants were not concerned with living in a contaminated community, local residents largely perceived dioxin as a risk to individual health and the local environment. Concern, shock, and irritation were typical affective responses at the time participants learned of the contamination. Several participants indicated a feeling of embarrassment and fear of being rejected by others because of the stigma associated with industrial contamination. Instead of actively seeking information about dioxin contamination and remediation, participants often relied on information provided to them by government officials. Behaviorally, participants avoided eating locally caught fish and prepared fish more carefully in order to avoid exposure to contaminants. As a whole, this study provided insight to understand affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to environmental stigma
Cognition · Embarrassment · Environmental health · Feeling · Psychiatry · Stigma (botany) · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Medicine · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Perceived Risk and Intentions to Practice Health Protective Behaviors in a Mining-Impacted Region
Risk, Stigma, Trustworthiness, and Citizen Participation—A Multifaceted Analysis of Media Coverage of Dioxin Contamination in Midland, Michigan
The Effect of Dioxin Contamination and Remediation on Property Values
Working with Institutional Stakeholders
Broken windows in tourism
Trust in whom? Dioxin, organizations, risk perception, and fish consumption in Michigan’s Saginaw Bay watershed
Lessons learned from previous environmental health crises
Chronic environmental contamination
Accessing heat
Communities at risk
Grounded theory in practice
An Emotion‐Based Model of Risk Perception and Stigma Susceptibility
Coping with Stigma through Psychological Disengagement
Stigma
The Social Amplification of Risk
Stop Complaining! The Social Costs of Making Attributions to Discrimination
Place and Identity Processes
Risk interpretation and action
Toxic Release! The role of educational games in teaching and learning about hazardous pollution
Underlying concerns in land-use conflicts—the role of place-identity in risk perception
Risk perceptions, stigma, and health policy
Stigma by Association Among Family Members of People with a Mental Illness
Adolescent mental health consumers' self‐stigma
A Theoretical Perspective on Coping With Stigma
Stigma consciousness
Social stigma and self-esteem
Stigma, agency and recovery amongst people with severe mental illness
Handbook of social psychology
Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans
Place-identity as a product of environmental self-regulation
Place Attachment
Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations
Aids-Related Stigma and Social Interaction
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |