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Research shows that ethnic minorities are at increased risk of loneliness compared to the general population of the United Kingdom. We hypothesized that stigma salience increases loneliness among ethnic minorities, conducting two experimental studies with ethnic minorities (Study 1: N = 134, Study 2: N = 267) in which participants were randomly assigned to a stigma salience (recalling a personal experience of discrimination based on ethnicity) or control condition (recalling a past meal in Study 1 and the experience of reading a book in Study 2). Across these two studies, we demonstrated that stigma salience consistently increased self‐reported loneliness relative to the control conditions. Study 1 additionally showed evidence for an indirect effect of stigma salience on loneliness through feelings of anxiety. Study 2 replicated the effect of self‐relevant (but not non‐self‐relevant) stigma salience on loneliness and provided suggestive evidence for a more specific indirect effect through identity‐related social anxiety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nearly all analyses of Ousmane Sembene's novella La Noire de ... (Voltaique, 1962) and its eponymous film adaptation (1966) mention the fact that Sembene found inspiration for his text and film in a French newspaper report of a real suicide. However, scholars have not tracked down a copy of the original report or excavated the history of Diouana Gomis, the real woman whose suicide in 1958--on the heels of the 1958 Referendum and on the eve of Senegalese independence (1960)--served as the inspiration for one of the most iconic of African films. Indeed, the figure of Diouana has become synonymous with Sembene's literary and cinematic character, in particular her 'screen memory' as Senegalese actress's Mbissine Therese Diop's powerful performance in the film. Until now, traces of the 'real' Diouana have remained buried in French police archives, her story receding from view. My essay makes a significant contribution to the study of Sembene's art and to the memory of Diouana Gomis by reconstructing the backstory of her suicide through unstudied archival documents. Diouana Gomis (1927-58), a thirty-oneyear-old, unmarried woman from Boutoupa in the Ziguinchor region of Senegal arrived in Antibes during the second week of April in 1958 and died by suicide less than three months later. The faint archival traces sewn in the wake of her suicide make it possible, and necessary, to reconstruct some of the details of her life and death so that the ghostly signature of this real woman might shadow the 'Diouana' whom we see and hear on screen., Effigie de Notre Mere l'Afrique Nous gemissons sur ton corps vendu Tu es notre Mere Diouana --Ousmane Sembene, 'Nostalgie' (1962) (2) How do we reckon with what modern history has [...]

We propose a psychologically-informed concept of social health to join physical and mental components in a more comprehensive assessment of human health. Although there is an extensive literature on the importance of social relationships to health, a theoretical framework is needed to coalesce this work into a codified conceptualisation of social health, defined here as adequate quantity and quality of relationships in a particular context to meet an individual's need for meaningful human connection. Informing this novel conceptualisation, we outline eight key propositions to guide future research and theory on social health, including five propositions focused on the conceptualisation of social health and three focused on its population patterning. The former five propositions include that social health is an outcome in its own right, that health interventions can have divergent effects on social versus physical and mental aspects of health, that social health has independent effects on quality of life, that it is a dynamic and contextual construct, and that it is embedded and encoded in the human body (and mind). The utility of the social health concept is further revealed in its significance for understanding and addressing population health concerns, such as health inequalities experienced by marginalised groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]