Coping with stigma and choosing silence: Discrimination and concealment among public housing residents
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Passive responses to discrimination, like silent endurance and denial, increase the desire to conceal public housing residency. Active resistance has a weaker effect, especially for women and long-term residents.
Area Of Science
- Social Sciences
- Urban Studies
- Sociology
Background
- Public housing residents frequently encounter discrimination and stigma.
- Understanding residents' responses to discrimination and their impact on concealment behavior is limited.
Purpose Of The Study
- To investigate the association between various responses to discrimination and the desire to conceal public housing status.
- To examine how gender and length of residence moderate this relationship.
Main Methods
- Utilized data from the Seoul Public Rental Housing Panel Survey (SPRHPS) with 5856 individuals across Waves 2-4.
- Employed ordinary least squares (OLS) and individual fixed effects (FE) models to analyze within-person changes.
- Included interaction terms to assess heterogeneity by gender and years in residence.
Main Results
- Silent endurance and passive denial significantly correlated with increased concealment of public housing status in both OLS and FE models.
- Active resistance showed a weaker association in OLS and became non-significant in FE models.
- Passive coping strategies demonstrated stronger concealment effects among women and long-term residents.
Conclusions
- Passive responses to discrimination are linked to a greater tendency to conceal public housing residency.
- Community education and inclusive activities are vital for reducing public housing stigma.
- Addressing stigma can improve residents' social participation and psychological well-being.
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