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Associations of Adolescent Mental Health First Aid Intentions and Help-Giving Behaviours: A School-Based Longitudinal Study
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Shurong Lu; Laura M. Hart; Anthony F. Jorm; Karen Gregg; Amy J. Morgan – School Mental Health, 2024
It is unclear how well intentions to support an adolescent peer with a mental health problem or in crisis translate into actual help-giving behaviours. Using data from a longitudinal study, this analysis aimed to investigate the associations between mental health first aid intentions and supportive behaviours among adolescents. A sample of 2749…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Adolescents, Mental Disorders, Helping Relationship
Factors Affecting Female Teachers' Attitudes toward Help-Seeking or Help-Avoidance in Coping with Behavioral Problems
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Inbar-Furst, Hagit; Gumpel, Thomas P. – Psychology in the Schools, 2015
Questionnaires were given to 392 elementary school teachers to examine help-seeking or help-avoidance in dealing with classroom behavioral problems. Scale validity was examined through a series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Using a series of multivariate regression analyses and structural equation modeling, we identified…
Descriptors: Females, Women Faculty, Questionnaires, Teacher Attitudes
Mothers' and Fathers' Reluctance to Seek Psychological Help for Their Children
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Raviv, Amiram; Sharvit, Keren; Raviv, Alona; Rosenblat-Stein, Shiran – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2009
We investigated the gap between parents' willingness to seek help for their children and their willingness to refer other parents to help, and the relationship of this gap to gender. Two hundred and eleven parent couples with elementary-school children reported their willingness to seek help from professional and informal sources for a…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Gender Differences, Mothers, Fathers
The Learning Community and Help-Seeking Behavior
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Backstrom, Tamika; Kordinak, S. Thomas; Harman, Marsha J.; Bruce, A. Jerry – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2010
This research investigated the factors in the learning community that reportedly contributed to the help-seeking behavior of children, specifically the relationship between juvenile crime victimization and help-seeking behavior. Students were interviewed using a questionnaire, which assessed their victimization history, their experience with…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Helping Relationship, Communities of Practice, Performance Factors
Impact of Attitudes and Suicidal Ideation on Adolescents' Intentions To Seek Professional Psychological Help.
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Carlton, Pamela A.; Deane, Frank P. – Journal of Adolescence, 2000
New Zealand high school students (N=221) completed a questionnaire that examined the relationship among factors associated with professional psychological help-seeking behavior. Suicidal ideation, attitudes, psychological distress, treatment fears, and gender were some predictors accounting for 23% of students' self-rated help-seeking intentions.…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Counseling, Foreign Countries, Help Seeking
Academic Help Seeking and Peer Interactions of High School Girls in Computer Science Classes.
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Oberman, Paul S. – 2000
Through interviews and classroom observations, this study investigated the academic help-seeking and interactions of high school girls with their computer science classmates in both a private school and a public school setting. The study explored five aspects of this help-seeking interaction: (1) females as a gender minority in computer science;…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Females, Group Dynamics, Help Seeking