Adolescents' willingness to seek psychological help: Promoting and preventing factors
Adolescents' willingness to seek psychological help: Promoting and preventing factors
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DOI：
10.1023/b:joyo.0000048064.31128.c6
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发表时间：
2004-12-01
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Sofronoff, K
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作者：
Sheffield, JK;Fiorenza, E;Sofronoff, K
尽管澳大利亚青少年存在心理健康问题的比例相对较高，但许多患有心理健康问题的青少年并未得到所需的帮助，只有一小部分青少年寻求专业的心理帮助。本研究调查了青少年寻求帮助的意愿，并调查了促进和阻止青少年从正式和非正式渠道寻求精神疾病帮助的因素。来自澳大利亚布里斯班学校的中学生（共 254 名）完成了一份调查问卷，调查了人口和心理变量、对精神疾病的态度以及寻求精神疾病帮助的意愿之间的关系。结果表明，适应性功能更强、寻求帮助的感知障碍更少、心理困扰程度更高的青少年更愿意向正式和非正式渠道寻求精神疾病的帮助。更大的社会支持也预示着从非正式渠道寻求帮助的意愿。尽管对精神疾病的态度并不影响寻求帮助的意愿，但较少的污名化态度与对精神疾病的了解较高、女性身份和社会支持水平较高有关。本研究的意义在于增强心理健康干预的能力，以提高青少年寻求心理帮助的意愿。
Although a relatively high percentage of Australian adolescents experience mental health problems, many disturbed adolescents do not receive the help they require, and only a small proportion of adolescents seek professional psychological help. The present study examined adolescents' willingness to seek help and investigated factors that promote and prevent adolescents from seeking help for a mental illness from both formal and informal sources. Secondary school students (254 in number) from schools in Brisbane, Australia completed a questionnaire that examined the relationship between demographic and psychological variables, attitudes toward mental illness, and willingness to seek help for a mental illness. Results suggest that adolescents with greater adaptive functioning, fewer perceived barriers to help seeking, and higher psychological distress were more willing to seek help from formal and informal sources for a mental illness. Greater social support also predicted willingness to seek help from informal sources. Although attitudes toward mental illness did not influence willingness to seek help, less stigmatising attitudes were related to higher knowledge of mental illness, being female, and higher levels of social support. Implications for the present study focus on enhancing the ability of mental health interventions to increase adolescents' willingness to seek psychological help.