Självstigma, skam och strategier : En kvalitativ studie av hur självstigma och strategier formas hos barn som växer upp med föräldrar som har ett skadligt bruk av alkohol

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to create a deeper understanding when it comes to how self stigma can  develop in children with parents that have harmful alcohol consumption. The questions of interest in this study are how adults describe their thoughts and self image during their childhood based on Patrick Corrigan and Frederick Millers theory about self stigma. The other question of interest is the following: which strategies are used by children to cope with self stigmatisation in relation to stigma and shame? The theoretical framework that we are using is the sociologist Erving Goffman's theory about stigma as well as the sociologist Charles Cooley's definition of shame. The questions in this study will be answered from  analysing six autobiographies of adults retelling their childhood with parents that have had a harmful use of alcohol. The analyse will be from a hermeneutics point of view and will also be categorised into four themes in order to analyse the content. The results unveil that all the adult children have had avoidance based coping strategies, the difference is in how they chose to avoid feelings of family shame and stigma.