How Self-Face Affects Psychological Help Seeking: Examining the Mediating Role of Self-Stigma Among Asian and Asian American College Students

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsin-Ya Liao ◽  
Jamie Louie ◽  
Alicia J. Harlow
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Psychological Help ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Asian American College Students

Developmental and contextual correlates of mental health and help-seeking among Asian American college students.

2018 ◽  
Vol 88 (6) ◽  
pp. 636-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratyusha Tummala-Narra ◽  
Zhushan Li ◽  
Janet Chang ◽  
Eun Jeong Yang ◽  
Jing Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Asian American College Students

Hope for Help-Seeking: A Positive Psychology Perspective of Psychological Help-Seeking Intentions

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryon C. McDermott ◽  
Hsiu-Lan Cheng ◽  
Joel Wong ◽  
Nathan Booth ◽  
Zachary Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Emotional Problem ◽  
Psychological Help ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Asian American Students

In the present study, we used multigroup structural equation modeling in a sample of college students ( N = 2,461) to examine ethnic and gender differences in the connections between dispositonal hope and intentions to seek psychological help from formal and informal sources. In a personal-emotional problem scenario, we found a robust positive relationship between hope and intentions to seek help from informal sources, but no association for formal sources. In a suicidal thoughts scenario, hope was positively associated with intentions to seek both informal and formal psychological help. Results of exploratory moderation analyses indicated that the model was invariant across non-Latino White students and Asian American students, as well as across men and women. These findings address critical gaps in the hope and help-seeking literature, and suggest that increasing college students’ dispositional hope may provide a unique positive psychology-focused avenue for increasing help-seeking intentions, even within underserved populations.

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