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Cheng, Hsiu-Lan; Kwan, Kwong-Liem Karl; Sevig, Todd – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2013
Many college students underuse professional psychological help for mental health difficulties. The stigma associated with seeking such help appears to be one of the reasons for this underuse. Levels of psychological distress and past use of counseling/psychotherapy have been found to be important correlates of stigma associated with seeking…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, African Americans, Ethnicity, Asian Americans
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Rogers Wood, Nikel A.; Petrie, Trent A. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2010
Initial research suggested that only European American women developed eating disorders (Garner, 1993), yet recent studies have shown that African American women do experience them (e.g., Lester & Petrie, 1998b; Mulholland & Mintz, 2001) and also may be negatively affected by similar sociocultural variables. In this study, we examined a…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Females, Structural Equation Models, Self Concept
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Utsey, Shawn O.; Giesbrecht, Norman; Hook, Joshua; Stanard, Pia M. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2008
This study tested a sociocultural model of stress and coping in a sample of 215 African Americans. Psychological resources (optimism, ego resilience) were modeled as a "nested self" (S. E. Hobfoll, 2001), supported by social resources (family adaptability and cohesion) and cultural resources (racial pride, religiosity). Race-related stress was a…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Racial Attitudes, Structural Equation Models, Psychologists