Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects a significant portion of the US population, but there remains limited information on public responses to affected individuals. Diagnosed mental illnesses can lead to negative stereotyping by the public, who can then socially exclude or otherwise discriminate. This paper presents results of an experiment (N = 830) that assessed the extent to which workers with PTSD labels—either resulting from an auto accident or wartime military service—evoked negative stereotypes in a workplace scenario and social distance from study participants. Results demonstrated that PTSD from wartime service evoked perceptions of dangerousness and incompetence (similar to other severe mental illness conditions) but did not evoke worse perceptions of assertiveness (a requisite managerial trait). The condition also led to levels of social exclusion similar to some other mental health labels. These findings provide insight into the context of stereotyping and social distance for PTSD relative to other conditions.

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战后应激障碍（PTSD）的退伍军人的污名化：刻板印象和社会距离的发现

创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）影响了美国人口的很大一部分，但是关于公众对受影响个体的反应的信息仍然有限。被诊断出的精神疾病会导致公众对负面的陈规定型观念，然后公众可以在社会上排斥或歧视他人。本文介绍了一项实验的结果（N = 830），该实验评估了带有PTSD标签的工人（无论是由于交通事故还是战时的兵役原因）在工作场所中引起负面刻板印象的程度以及与研究参与者的社会距离。结果表明，战时服务人员的创伤后应激障碍引起了对危险和无能的感知（类似于其他严重的精神疾病），但并未引起对自信心的较差感知（必要的管理特质）。这种情况还导致社会排斥的程度与其他一些心理健康标签相似。这些发现提供了对PTSD相对于其他情况的刻板印象和社会距离的背景的见解。