A Research On The Relationship Among Psychological Help Seeking Attitude, Coping Efficacy And Attributional Style Of College Students

Based on literature summary and open-ended questionnaire investigation, An Attitude Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Questionnaire (ATSPPHQ) with high reliability and validity is constructed by factor analysis. With the ATSPPHQ, this research studies on the relationship among ATSPPH, coping efficacy and attributional style of college students, and explores the predictors of ATSPPH including coping efficacy; attributional style and demography factors. This research is devoted to provide theory suggestions and supportiveness for the practice of mental healthy education of college students.The results indicate that: (1) Women students are significantly more likely to seek help than men students. (2) The only-children students are significantly more likely to seek help than non-only-children students. (3) The students from city and town are significantly more likely to seek help than students from countryside. (4) ATSPPH correlated with coping efficacy and attributional style postively. (5) Result from regression indicates that the attitude towards seeking professional help is affected by many factors together. Coping efficacy and attributional style are found to be significant predictors of ATSPPH.