Title: How Anti-Substance Abuse Campaigns Influence Substance Abusers’ Psychological Health in Chinese Communities: The Mediating Role of Perceived Stigma
Author：曾永辉、韩丽
Abstract：
•The current study explored how anti-substance abuse campaigns influence substance abusers’ psychological health through the perception of stigma. The study is based on a sample of substance abusers who received community-based treatments (n = 3457) and used structural equation modeling to estimate the role of perceived stigma in mediating between perceptions of overstatement of harm conveyed in anti-substance abuse campaigns and psychological outcomes. The results revealed that substance abusers’ perception of overstatement of the harm caused by the substances and substance abusers enhanced their perceived stigma and impaired their psychological health in terms of anxiety, depression, and somatization, through both direct and indirect pathways. The results advocate for proper strategies in the design of anti-substance abuse campaigns. Possible initiatives to reduce substance abusers’ perceived stigma are recommended.
•Funding：This research was funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, grant number 20&ZD122; the Guangzhou Philosophy and Social Science Foundation, grant number 2019GZGJ50;Cooperative Professional Training Program funded by the Guangdong public security Department,grant number skzx2019060.
Keywords: substance abusers; perceived stigma; psychological health
