ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2024
Food for thought: The intersection between SNAP stigma, food insecurity, and gender.
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- Modelling enablers and barriers to improve uptake of a fruit and vegetable voucher scheme (the fresh street community) in England: a TISM-MICMAC approach.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Nutrition biomarker assessment and exploration of the role of country foods to improve food security in the Sahtú Region, Canada.International journal of circumpolar health · 2025Article
- Safety Net Programs as Primary Prevention Against Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the United States: Natural Experiments with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Association Between Food Insecurity and Mental Health Among College Students in the Bronx, New York (NY).Nutrients · 2025Article
- Cross-Sectional Analysis of Factors Predicting Food Assistance Stigma.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- "It makes you feel worthless." The lived experience of discrimination in the US food assistance system.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Assessing access and use of nutrition support programs, food insecurity, and health status in urban Native American families with young children in Montana: A case study.Journal of agriculture, food systems, and community development · 2025Article
- "No reason for children to go hungry": Rural U.S. caregivers' perceptions of elected officials and their impacts on food policy.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps millions of families with low incomes to afford and purchase food each year. Prior research has noted that welfare stigma-negative stereotypes about people who participate in public assistance programs-can limit SNAP participation. Stigma may also contribute to worse mental health among subgroups like male participants; qualitative evidence suggests males may struggle to accept public assistance benefits due to norms surrounding gender roles. Yet there is little research about who is most likely to experience stigma, how stigma relates to food insecurity, whether this relationship varies by gender identity, and whether stigma is associated with online shopping (which may protect against stigma). To address these gaps, we analyzed a national survey of 1383 SNAP participants about their experiences of SNAP stigma, food insecurity, and online shopping. In adjusted models, we found that male participants had 40% higher odds (95% CI: 1.09-1.80) of reporting any stigma experience compared to female participants. SNAP participants reporting stigma had over three times the odds (OR: 3.54, 95% CI: 2.60-4.81) of reporting food insecurity relative to those not reporting stigma, and male participants reporting stigma had nearly three times higher odds of food insecurity than female participants reporting stigma (OR: 2.94, 95% CI: 1.53, 5.66). In addition, stigma was not significantly associated with shopping online or using SNAP benefits online. In this national sample of SNAP participants, male respondents had greater odds of welfare stigma, experiences of stigma were associated with greater odds of food insecurity, male respondents experiencing stigma had greater odds of food insecurity compared to female respondents, and stigma was not associated with online shopping behaviors. Efforts to reframe public assistance may be needed to destigmatize programs like SNAP to both improve program uptake among non-participants and improve health outcomes among participants.
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