Counseling Situational Factors Affecting College Students' Psychological Help Will And Behavior

The underutilization of mental health service in university is widely exist in China, which may contribute to the low willingness of help-seeking of college students and their corresponding negative behavior when they suffer from mental distress or even severe mental disorder. This study focused on related factors in counseling service context to explore their relationship with help-seeking, which may give implication to promote mental health of students by providing them with a more suitable service. The present research consists of three parts—part1:to explore the role of service related factors playing on help-seeking willingness in never seeking help group and their role on help-seeking behavior by analyze statistic from never seeking help group and first seeking help group; part2:to study the actual help-seeking behavior of students with high willingness, find out the path between help-seeking willingness and actual behavior; part3:to find out different path of help-seeking decision of male and female students. The major result is present below:1. The anticipated utility of self-disclosure, accessibility to help resource and help-seeking attitude was the predictor of willingness, and anticipated utility and attitude mediate accessibility and willingness by regression analysis and structure equation model. In terms of actual help-seeking behavior, high willingness, positive attitude and rich indirect help-seeking experience were predictor of help-seeking behavior. Also, less casual control and anticipated risk of disclosure also predict behavior strongly.2. There were significant differences between tow groups in all variables but anticipated utility. T-test saw significant higher scores of never seeking help group than seeking help group in self-stigma, anticipated risk and control attribution of problem, and significant lower scores on self-efficiency as a client and indirect help-seeking experiences. The result of regression analyze showed that perceived control, indirect help-seeking experiences, anticipated risk and self-efficiency were strong predictor of help-seeking behavior. SEM analysis showed that anticipated risk mediated self-efficiency and help-seeking behavior fully, and self-efficiency as a client mediated indirect help-seeking experiences and help-seeking behavior fully. Furthermore self-efficiency as a client and anticipated risk partly mediated indirect help-seeking experiences and help-seeking behavior. 3. The present study found that attitude toward counseling and help-seeking willingness did not differ between two genders. Casual control and indirect help-seeking experiences can predict help-seeking behavior of both male and female students while,help-seeking behavior of male students were predicted by their attitude, female students by their self-efficiency as a client and anticipated risk of disclosure respectively...