What is Positive Stigma in Terms of Chaos

Living daily routine of life is difficult for stigmatized people who have any type of stigma because of public view on them. For example; some political leaders who are living or not are so great heroes in our public eyes; we cannot think generally that they have humanitarian needs like us; such as sleeping, eating, drinking, sex and so on. This public perspective of us complicates life for leaders. So their daily life becomes chaotic. All stigmatized individuals’ influence level from stigma to coping power with stigma is different, this is changeable according to stigmatized person and also this individuals’ life changing potential is unpredictable. Finally, we can say that positive stigma is a chaotic phenomenon.

Different Sides of a Reality: “Positive Stigma”

Şefika Şule Erçetin (Hacettepe University, Turkey), Halime Güngör (Hacettepe University, Turkey), and Şuay Nilhan Açıkalın (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)