ArticleInternational journal of mental health and addiction2022
The Impact of Linguistic Form of Labels on Desire for Social Distance in Mental Health.
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- Who you are or what you have: Historical trends in identity-first and person-first language in books and news media.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- How researchers refer to individuals with schizophrenia: person-first and identity-first language in academic papers.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
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Abstract
The American Psychological Association, among other influential bodies, make recommendations on language for describing people with mental health conditions. The present studies test the impact of the recommended language on stigma. In Study 1, participants (n = 294) were asked to complete measures of desire for social distance from individuals given a diagnostic label in either person-first possessive, identity-first noun, or identity-first adjective forms. Familiarity with the diagnoses was considered as a potential influence on the outcome. The 3*2 (linguistic form * experience) factorial design was repeated for three diagnoses - schizophrenia, anorexia and alcoholism. In Study 2, the research was replicated with a sample recruited from the UK population via social media (n = 230). Factorial ANOVA was used for analysis. In contrast with previous literature, the studies found neither an effect of linguistic form (hypothesis 1) nor an interaction effect with familiarity (hypothesis 2). Research on this topic is in an early stage and, above all, it remains important to use language, which shows respect when talking to or about others.
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