THe effect of depressed mood, help-seeking attitude, self stigma, social stigma and self concealment on help-seeking behavior and help-seeking delay

• Main Authors: Hung-Wen Chang, 張虹雯
• Other Authors: Li-Fei Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8e2fzu

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系 === 100 === The purpose of this thesis is to clarify if the target variables including depressed mood, help-seeking attitude, public stigma, self concealment and gender can predict the help-seeking behavior, and the effect on help-seeking delay. This method of data collection of this thesis is survey and convenient sampling. The total sample size is 1,262, consisting of 420 male and 842 female college students from island wide. The average age is 20.86 years old. The findings are as followed. First, as to the gender difference, male college students are significantly higher than female students on depressed mood, self stigma, public stigma, and self concealment. However, there is no difference in help-seeking attitude, help-seeking behavior and help-seeking delay. Second, comparing the “never-help-seeker”, the “considering-help-seeker” and the “ever-help-seeker”, the group differences are significant in all research variables. In additions, the results of the Post Hoc multiple comparisons show that the depressive mood and help-seeking attitude of the “ever-help-seeker” are significantly higher than the other two groups, implying the characteristics of the ever-help-seeker are high in depressive mood and help-seeking attitude. The considering-help-seeker is higher than the other tow groups in self stigma, social stigma, self concealment, and help-seeking delay. Their score of the help-seeking delay is much higher than the other two groups, implying the characteristics of the former are high in stigma and help-seeking delay. The never-help-seeker is lowest in depressive mood and help-seeking attitude and higher than the ever-help-seeker in self stigma as the considering-help-seeker. The result implies that the characteristics of this group are low in the depressive mood and help-seeking attitude, as well as high in stigma. Third, those college students with the following characteristics are more inclined to seek help: the senior, majoring in literature/social/educational institute, with counseling experiences, with more serious depressive mood, having stronger confidence in the effectiveness of counseling professions, with weaker belief that help-seeking will affect the self-esteem and self satisfaction, as well as more inclined to conceal and reserve negative experiences and secrets. Among all, the most critical indicator is having counseling experiences. However, the effect of gender and public stigma is not significant. Forth, the most powerful predictors of help-seeking delay are, similarly, having counseling experiences, help-seeking attitude, self sigma and self concealment. Fifth, to further explore the mediation effect, the self concealment has complete mediate effect between depressive mood and help-seek delay. Public stigma has partial mediation effect between depressive mood and help-seek delay. However, help-seek attitude does not moderate the depressive mood and help-seek delay. According to the results, this thesis has some suggestions about the counseling practice and research in the future.