Sociocultural predictors of psychological help-seeking attitudes and behavior among Mexican American college students.

The relationship between college students' coping and psychological help-seeking attitudes and intentions was examined. Seven hundred and nineteen students participated (180 men, 537 women, and two individuals who did not indicate their gender). Questionnaires were completed online and included the Brief COPE and Beliefs About Psychological Services scales. It was found that for students with previous counseling experience, coping by means of greater use of support seeking and less use of avoidant coping strategies was associated with greater intent to seek psychological help, greater stigma tolerance, and greater belief in psychologists' expertness. Problem-focused coping was unrelated to psychological help-seeking attitudes and intentions among these students. For students without previous counseling experience, coping by means of greater use of support seeking (emotional support, instrumental support, and venting), greater use of problem-focused coping (active coping, positive reframing, religion, and planning), and less use of avoidant coping strategies (denial, substance use, behavioral disengagement, and self-blame) was associated with greater stigma tolerance and greater belief in psychologists' expertness. For these students, coping behaviors were not related to intentions to seek counseling.

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Africentric Cultural Values, Psychological Help-Seeking Attitudes, and Self-Concealment in African American College Students

Journal of Black Psychology ◽

10.1177/0095798405281025 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 369-385 ◽

Cited By ~ 52

Author(s):

Barbara C. Wallace ◽

Madonna G. Constantine

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

African American ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Help Seeking ◽

Psychological Help ◽

African American College Students ◽

Help Seeking Attitudes

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Stigma, Loss of Face, and Help-Seeking Attitudes Among South Korean College Students

The Counseling Psychologist ◽

10.1177/0011000019872790 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 331-357 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Paul Youngbin Kim ◽

Kyu Jin Yon

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Help Seeking ◽

Online Survey ◽

Psychological Help ◽

Public Stigma ◽

Loss Of Face ◽

Help Seeking Attitudes ◽

Mediation Analyses ◽

South Korean ◽

Korean College Students

In this study, we investigated empirical associations between others’ stigma regarding seeking psychological help (predictor), self-stigma regarding seeking help (mediator), loss of face concerns (moderator), and professional help-seeking attitudes (outcome) among 485 South Korean college students. We also explored the dimensionality of close others’ stigma and public stigma using a bifactor analysis. We recruited participants from several universities in South Korea. They completed an online survey containing demographic questions and study measures. Bifactor analysis results indicated that close others’ stigma and public stigma may be better treated as a unidimensional construct (i.e., others’ stigma). Mediation and moderated mediation analyses indicated that others’ stigma predicted self-stigma, which in turn predicted help-seeking attitudes. Furthermore, this mediation model was moderated by loss of face, in that as loss of face increased, the negative indirect effect of others’ stigma on help-seeking attitudes through self-stigma became weaker. We discuss implications for research and practice.

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