Does context matter? Illness-specific variations in experiencing and managing stigma between people with schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder

Background/Objectives: Attitude research has shown that different diagnostic labels trigger specific sets of beliefs, which, in turn, produce distinct emotional and behavioural reactions towards those labelled. At the same time, a trend toward illness-specific approaches can be observed in the treatment of mental health problems. Much of stigma research, however, has focused on mental illness in general, or concentrated on depression and schizophrenia, while neglecting other patient groups. This study focuses on one extensively studied group and one understudied group in stigma research, contrasting illness-spec…