TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic librarians’ experiences and perceptions on mental illness stigma and the workplace
AU - Burns, Erin
AU - Green, Kristin E.C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Eric Burns and Kristin E.C. Green.
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - Research has been conducted within academia about faculty members and students who have experienced mental illness from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including disability studies. While this research acknowledges that the stigma surrounding mental illness keeps people from sharing their experiences, there has not been research that focused specifically on librarians in higher education. This study sought to determine if mental illness stigma affects academic librarians and their professional environments, including teaching and providing services for students, using a survey modeled on one from the psychological literature. The responses revealed that stigma greatly influences academic librarians, particularly with regard to disclosure. An allowance for disclosure without the fear of stigmatization would not only help librarians but would also help other members of our academic communities. Sharing these survey results can begin to fill a gap that exists in the literature between librarians experiencing mental illness, the stigma that they experience because of it, and changing our academic culture.
AB - Research has been conducted within academia about faculty members and students who have experienced mental illness from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including disability studies. While this research acknowledges that the stigma surrounding mental illness keeps people from sharing their experiences, there has not been research that focused specifically on librarians in higher education. This study sought to determine if mental illness stigma affects academic librarians and their professional environments, including teaching and providing services for students, using a survey modeled on one from the psychological literature. The responses revealed that stigma greatly influences academic librarians, particularly with regard to disclosure. An allowance for disclosure without the fear of stigmatization would not only help librarians but would also help other members of our academic communities. Sharing these survey results can begin to fill a gap that exists in the literature between librarians experiencing mental illness, the stigma that they experience because of it, and changing our academic culture.
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U2 - 10.5860/crl.80.5.638
DO - 10.5860/crl.80.5.638
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85071432942
SN - 0010-0870
VL - 80
SP - 638
EP - 657
JO - College and Research Libraries
JF - College and Research Libraries
IS - 5
ER -