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| Personal Name | Lee, Yoo Jung |
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| Resource Title | Students’ mental Health stigma management communication inside neoliberal academe contexts |
| Date Issued | 19 July 2024 |
| Abstract | Neoliberalism has grown from an economic model to a globally dominant ideology that upholds individualism and self-reliance. This has permeated the policies and beliefs that circulate various societal structures, resulting not only in the prioritization of market-driven principles in the academe but also the stigmatization of mental health, framing struggles as personal failures. Fassett and Warren’s Critical Communication Pedagogy provides a framework for understanding how everyday communication practices within educational settings reflect and reinforce oppressive neoliberal ideologies, emphasizing the role of education in both perpetuating and resisting these systems. Meanwhile, Meisenbach’s Stigma Management Communication (SMC) theory categorizes the strategies individuals use to manage stigma based on their attitudes towards the stigma's existence and its applicability to themselves. I integrate these theories into my study to answer how students navigate the mental health stigma within academic contexts. By engaging in dialogue and interviewing three students from the University of the Philippines, I confirmed that students employ various SMC strategies in academic contexts based on multiple factors beyond Meisenbach’s basic criteria. This included their perceptions of professor communication behaviors, their goals in the academe, their current state of mental health, and their personal stance on the mental health stigma. When students are conscious of how the mental health stigma shapes and limits the communication behaviors of their professors, they can regain their agency that has been subsumed by neoliberal agenda and choose the SMC strategy that best manages their stigmatized identity. Consequently, this led to the conclusion that students subvert communicative expectations in neoliberal academic contexts by choosing SMC strategies as creative communicative improvisations. By analyzing these communicative practices, the research points to critic |
| Degree Course | Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication : Interpersonal and Instructional Communication |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Critical Communication Pedagogy; Stigma management; Neoliberal academe; Mental health; Neoliberalism; College students--Mental Health; Stigma management communication |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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