This study examines the cognitive resources underlying the attribution of stigma in substance use and misuse. A cultural model of substance misuse risk was elicited from students at a major U.S. state university. We found a contested cultural model, with some respondents adopting a model of medical risk while others adopted a model of moral failure; agreeing that moral failure primarily defined risk led to greater attribution of stigma. Here we incorporate general beliefs about moral decision-making, assessed through Moral Foundations Theory. Specifically, we examined commitment to each moral foundation in relation to stigma attribution while controlling for the specific model of substance misuse risk. We found an interaction between the purity moral foundation and the cultural model of risk. This suggests that broad moral orientations, along with more specific understandings of substance misuse risk, combine to orient an individual with respect to stigma attribution.

本研究考察了物质使用和滥用中耻辱归因的认知资源。美国一所主要州立大学的学生提出了滥用毒品风险的文化模型。我们发现了一种有争议的文化模式，有些受访者采用了医疗风险模型，而另一些受访者则采用了道德失范模型。同意道德上的失败主要是对风险的定义，导致了更多的污名归因。在这里，我们结合了通过道德基础理论评估的关于道德决策的一般信念。具体而言，我们在控制特定的滥用药物风险模型的同时，考察了与耻辱归因相关的每个道德基础的承诺。我们发现纯洁的道德基础与风险的文化模型之间存在相互作用。这表明广泛的道德取向，