Occupying multiple stigmatized identities: Smoking and unemployment stigmas among the unemployed.

ABSTRACT: Stigma - which involves stereotyping, discrimination, and status loss - is a central driver of morbidity and mortality. Given the de-normalization of smoking and the status loss of unemployment, unemployed individuals who smoke may occupy multiple stigmatized identities. As such, this study examined aspects and correlates of smoking and unemployment stigmas among unemployed job-seekers who smoke. Adult job-seekers who smoke tobacco (N = 360) were recruited at government-run employment development departments (EDDs) in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2015-2018. Participants completed measures of smoking and unemployment stigma and self-reported their demographic, tobacco use, and physical and mental health characteristics. Smoking and unemployment stigmas were moderately positively correlated

SUBMITTER: Fielding-Singh P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7262435 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature