Five core categories emerged from the interview data: being at a loss, discrediting self by self and others, taking time in performance, restoring competency, and transcending limitations of disability.
As for the specific aspect in Japan, in the theme Discrediting self by self and others, the current results suggest that family members and healthcare professionals tended to cause the participants to internalize more stigma by expecting them to be entirely dependent, whereas persons with chronic health disorders in American society were expected to fulfill those responsibilities [ 5].
Other nations, of course, might regard such new alliances of convenience as self-discrediting.
Participants scornfully described their body with CSCI in terms such as 'a disabled body on a wheelchair.' As an example of self-discrediting, one participant who anticipated being stigmatized tried not to take part in a funeral, even though it is a social obligation for the only son to be a leader of the ceremony.
In the process of life reconstruction, the negative influence of Discrediting self in dependence could not be eased in a short time, because it was a social obligation for both family and participants to take care of/be taken care of at home.
This is not meant to discredit self-reports of discrimination experienced by health workers.
The five themes were: a) being at a loss; b) discrediting self by self and others; c) taking time in performance; d) restoring competency; and e) transcending limitations of disability.
It's a preposterous and self-discrediting comparison: Erdogan and Assad resemble each other in little more than their mustaches.
But backlash is often self-discrediting as "extremism," and over the long run it sometimes pushes many people onto the side of amelioration.
But you don't need to be an expert in Shi'a eschatology to understand how last week's volatile election gave way to an exercise in self-discrediting thuggery by Iran's clerical leadership.
"Please shut down the mic, since this is not an authorized presentation," she said, admonishing the delegates and adding that their speech was "totally self-discrediting".
