| Help-seeking behavior generally refers to the behavior of individuals with psychological perplex seeking help from professional psychological counseling or psychotherapy institutions.In fact,fortune-telling devination and other folk activities have a high incidence in People’s Daily life.At the same time,studies in clinical psychological counseling,sociology,anthropology,journalism and communication also show that fortune-telling can help people to some extent.Current research about psychological help have discussed the reason why people don’t seek professional help.To be specific,these studies discussed the factors of demographic variables,social personality variable,cultural and other aspects of variables to attitude for help,help intention and help-seeking behavior.However,the fortune-telling divination’s help is rarely studied.On the basis of previous studies,this study by means of questionnaire screening picked 10 participants getting help from fortune tellers and divination activities without any professional counseling experience.Semi-structured interviews was used to interview the participants about their help from the fortune-telling divination and their cognition and attitude to psychological consultation.This research using interpretative phenomenological analysis method to encode the interview recording and transcription transcript,it is found that for part of the research objects,they get help from fortune telling activities,and they also showed general tendency of getting help from themselves before they ask for others.Fortune-telling devination’s help embodied in:(1)When ascribing the bad situation to fate which is uncontrollable external cause,people can reduce self-blame and psychological burden;(2)in some regions where productivity is relatively backward,professional psychological institutions and resources have not yet been popularized.Fortune-telling,as a folk activity accessible to the common people,has the function of relieving worries and solving problems.(3)The implicit and generous description used by fortune-tellers reflects the Oriental philosophy and conforms to the habits and thinking mode of people under this cultural background.Environment and people interacting each other,the concept of "born with a destiny"can be regarded as the collective subconsciousness of people under the Chinese cultural background.The cognitive and attitude to psychological consultation of people turning to fortune divination involves the following several aspects:(1)For some respondents,because of the limitation of objective conditions,they lack the understanding of professional psychological counseling,and psychological counseling for them are fresh and curious.They are willing to try if the conditions are right;(2)Most of them think professional psychological counseling is mainly worked for people with serious psychological problems.But for their own,talking to friends,comforting themselves,reading books is enough to solve the problems;(3)For the interviewee who is experiencing the problem of overeating,worrying about negative feedback and doubting the abilities of the counsellors is her biggest obstacle to seeking counseling. |
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