ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2021
What Contributes to Stigma Towards Autistic University Students and Students with Other Diagnoses?
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- Experiences of females on the autism spectrum through the perspective of minority stress theory: a review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Do Autistic People's Support Needs and Non-Autistic People's Support for the Neurodiversity Movement Contribute to Heightened Autism Stigma in South Korea vs. the US?Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Trial
- Autism, Obesity, and PTSD Among Adolescents and Young Adults: An Analysis of National Medicaid Claims Data.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Unmasking: A Mixed-Methods Study of Autistic College Students' Efforts to Stop Masking/Camouflaging.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Pre-service teachers' explicit and implicit stereotypes towards pupils with different special educational needs.The British journal of educational psychology · 2026Article
- Values, belief systems and mental health stigma - a scoping review and synthesis of quantitative evidence.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- The relationship between newspaper reading preferences and attitudes towards autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- Biased mental face representations of autistic children in the general population.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- A Narrative Review of Cardiovascular Health in Autistic Individuals: Epidemiologic Evidence, Mechanistic Pathways, and Future Directions.Current epidemiology reports · 2026Review
- "Listening with Your Heart": Autism Support Program Faculty Experiences in Teaching Autistic College Students.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- Associations Among Demographic and Clinical Characteristics and Discrimination Experiences of Autistic Youth.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Comparing Self-Perceptions, Meta-Perceptions, and Peer Judgments of the Academic Experience of Autistic and Non-Autistic University Students.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- Integrating Antiracism and Life Course Frameworks in Research with Autistic Minority Transition-Aged Youth and Young Adults.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- The Effect of Labeling During Simulated Contact on Attitudes Toward Autistic Adults.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- The effect of autism phenotype and diagnosis disclosure on students' desire for social distance from autistic peers.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- Non-autistic observers both detect and demonstrate the double empathy problem when evaluating interactions between autistic and non-autistic adults.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- Trends and Challenges in the Mental Health of University Students with Disabilities: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Prevalence of bias against neurodivergence-related terms in artificial intelligence language models.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- A Neurodiversity-Oriented Approach to Address Autism Wandering as a "Problem Behavior" in Pediatrics.Cureus · 2023Article
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Abstract
Little remains known about the degree to which autistic university students are stigmatized relative to students with other diagnoses. We conducted an online survey with students in New York City (n = 633) and Beirut (n = 274). Students with diagnoses that were perceived as dangerous (e.g., psychopathy) were more stigmatized than students with diagnoses that were perceived as less dangerous (e.g., autism). Disruptive autistic behaviors (described via vignettes) evoked more stigma than withdrawn behaviors. Perceived dangerousness predicted autism stigma. Greater acceptance of inequality, less openness, and lower cognitive empathy co-occurred with heightened stigma towards most conditions. Diagnostic labels were typically less stigmatized than behaviors. Findings suggest that interventions are needed to decrease stigma towards varied diagnoses in collegiate communities.
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