The Relationship Between Social Stigma and Self-Identity Among Recovering Female Juvenile Delinquents from Substance Abuse

Abstract

The current study aimed to identify the correlational relationship between social stigma and self-identity among female delinquents recovering from drug abuse. The study adopted the descriptive correlational approach, and the study sample included (67) female delinquents recovering from drug abuse. To achieve the research objectives, the researchers sought to build a social stigma scale based on Erving Goffman theory (Goffman, 1963), and to adapt the scale (Al-Rababah, 1994) which is based on the scale of Adams, Bennion & Huh (1989). The researchers used the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to statistically analyze the data. The researchers concluded that there is a statistically significant inverse correlation at the significance level of (0.05) between social stigma and self-identity, which means that the higher the level of social stigma, the lower the level of self-identity formation among the female delinquents recovering from drug abuse.