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Undignified Dignity: Using Humor to Manage the Stigma of Mental Illness and Homelessness
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Research on stigma has generally focused on either how stigmatized individuals manage their stigmatizing traits, how stigmatizing messages are communicated, or on how education and contact campaigns reduce the degree of stigma. This article seeks to expand on the communication stigma literature by arguing that stigmatized and unstigmatized individuals are able to co-manage stigmatizing traits through the cocreation of a culture of individualized dignity. Specifically, this ethnographic study examines the use of humor at a homeless shelter that caters to individuals with severe mental illness to create a culture of “undignified dignity.” The findings highlight how even complex stigmas may be ameliorated through a focus on dignity as a bridging medium between stigmatized and unstigmatized individuals.
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“Openly joking about stigmatizing traits, including illness, queer identities, and homelessness, reduced the negative valence of the attached emotions, reducing stigma and enabling nuanced conversations about their experiences.”
From Is it Still Ok to be Ok? Mental Health Labels as a Campus Technology (2023) · cites this paper as Jensen 2018
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“Jensen’s study (2018) illustrated how joking about mental illness in a homeless shelter allowed staff and service users to have frank discussions about these stigmatizing traits.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jensen, P. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Alabama (US)
- Corresponding author
- Jensen, Peter R.
- ORCID
- Jensen, Peter R.
- Venue
- Communication Quarterly
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-06-02
- Volume
- 66
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 20-37
- ISSN
- 0040-8573 (ISSN-L)
- 0146-3373
- 1746-4102
- OpenAlex
- W2620802897
- Cited by
- 27
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 2.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Communication Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homelessness and Social Issues
- Keywords
- stigma, humor, mental illness, homelessness, human dignity, homeless shelters, severe mental illness, stigma management
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