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Carrie J. Aigner – Journal of College Student Mental Health, 2025
Despite high rates of distress in college student populations, many students do not seek help for mental health issues. The context in which mental health help-seeking occurs is not well understood. Cognitive models of depression provide a theoretical understanding of how depression symptoms may promote the internalization of stigma beliefs, thus…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mental Health, Help Seeking, Labeling (of Persons)
Jeffrey A. Miles; Stefanie E. Naumann – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Given the negative effects that anxiety and stress can have on university students' academic performance, work, and relationships, it is important to identify factors associated with intentions to seek personal counselling. We identified social self-concept, students' beliefs about their abilities and confidence in social situations, as a mediator…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Undergraduate Students, Individual Counseling, Help Seeking
Hyejeong Oh; Helen Patrick; Jessica Kilday; Allison Ryan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
This study draws on basic psychological needs (BPN) theory to investigate multiple ways that perceived relatedness is important for understanding students' help-seeking behavior in college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. Participants were 590 undergraduates (38% women; 65% European American, 24% Asian/Pacific…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Help Seeking, Personal Autonomy
Molla, Shambel – Cogent Education, 2022
This study was aimed at understanding students' academic self-concept, academic help-seeking behaviors, and beliefs in counseling service effectiveness. Based on a correlational research design, a closed-ended questionnaire was administrated to 182 college students. Independent-sample t-test revealed that male students' average score was…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Concept, Help Seeking, Student Behavior
Maeshima, Lindsey S.; Parent, Mike C. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To examine the relationship between stigma and mental health help-seeking among Asian American and Asian international college students. Participants: Asian American college students (401 men, 858 women) and Asian international college students (384 men, 428 women). Methods: Data from the 2018-2019 Healthy Minds Study were used to…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Help Seeking, Health Behavior, Foreign Students
Fostervold Mathisen, T. F.; Sundgot-Borgen, C.; Anstensrud, B.; Sundgot-Borgen, J. – Research in Dance Education, 2022
A high frequency of mental health challenges and injuries in professional dancers necessitate a better understanding of the complexity of such symptoms, and to explore differences according to sex, academic year and performance levels. Professional dance students were recruited to evaluate symptoms of depression and anxiety (SCL-10), resilience…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Ballesteros, Jorge L.; Hilliard, Robert C. – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2016
The purpose of the study was to examine the attitudes of Latina/o college students in the U.S. toward online counseling, with particular attention to the role of gender, self-stigma, perceptions of stigma by others, and acculturation within a sample of 231 college students. This cross-sectional survey used the "Perceived Stigmatization by…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Counseling Techniques, Gender Differences
Topkaya, Nursel – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
Using a sample of university students (N = 362), the role of gender and both the self-stigma and public stigma associated with one's decision to seek psychological help in predicting attitudes toward psychological helpseeking were examined. Moreover, gender differences regarding both the self-stigma and the public stigma associated with…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Students, Social Bias, Social Attitudes
Gumpel, Thomas P.; Wiesenthal, Vered; Söderberg, Patrik – Behavioral Disorders, 2015
This study had three primary goals: to explore the relationship between narcissism, participant roles, and aggression; to examine the role of gender as a moderating influence on narcissism-based aggression; and to examine how these variables work together to influence aggressive outcomes in a sample of aggressive middle and high school students.…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Social Status, Social Cognition, Aggression
Walter, Jeffrey P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research on the psychological help-seeking beliefs and behaviors of college students has provided evidence for differences among students based on demographic factors, with different variables being salient for different cultural groups. This mixed methods study focuses on understanding how common psychological help-seeking variables, including…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, College Students, Gender Differences, Social Class
Hackler, Ashley H.; Vogel, David L.; Wade, Nathaniel G. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2010
This study examined the relationship between self-stigma, anticipated risks and benefits associated with seeking counseling, and attitudes toward seeking counseling among college students with disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. The results of hierarchical regression analyses demonstrated that self-stigma and the anticipated risks and…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Risk, Help Seeking, Counseling
Vogel, David L.; Shechtman, Zipora; Wade, Nathaniel G. – Counseling Psychologist, 2010
Public and self-stigmas have been implicated as factors in the underutilization of individual counseling. However, group counseling is also underutilized, and yet scholars know very little about the role of different types of stigma on attitudes toward seeking group counseling. Therefore, the current study examined the relationships between public…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Group Counseling, Social Bias, Self Concept
Wade, Nathaniel G.; Post, Brian C.; Cornish, Marilyn A.; Vogel, David L.; Tucker, Jeritt R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2011
One of the major obstacles to seeking psychological help is the stigma associated with counseling and therapy. Self-stigma, the fear of losing self-respect or self-esteem as a result of seeking help, is an important factor in the help-seeking process. In the present study, college students meeting a clinical cutoff for psychological symptoms…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Group Counseling, Psychology, Predictor Variables
American Psychologist, 2009
Joseph H. Hammer, recipient of the Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award, is cited for an outstanding research paper whose findings provide important evidence regarding the promise of a male-sensitive approach to mental health marketing and empirically support the inclusion of theory-driven enhancements in group-targeted mental…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Depression (Psychology), Awards, Biographies
Duncan, Lonnie E.; Johnson, Darrell – College Student Journal, 2007
A help seeking survey and measures of socioeconomic status, cultural mistrust, and African Self-consciousness were administered to 315 Black college students to study attitudes toward counseling and counselor preference. Multiple Regression analysis indicated that gender, cultural mistrust, and socioeconomic status were statistically significant…
Descriptors: African American Students, Undergraduate Students, Socioeconomic Status, Help Seeking
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