The Affecting Factors And Intervention Studies Of Psychological Help-Seeking In College Students

The mental health service is more and more convenient in college but the number of students who make use of it is not much. When students have some mental distress, there are only a few of them willing to seek professional psychological help. Many scientists have concentrated on this problem with studying impossible explains. And the purpose of this research is to investigate different influcing variables of attitude towards seeking professional psychological help. Meanwhile, as a independent controlled variable, self-esteem is also be studied.The aim of this study is to find out effective interventions to improve attitude and to promote the use of mental health services in college students.The first part of the study is about the influencing factors study of professional psychological help-seeking attitudes. The second part proved whether self-esteem is the medium variable between cognitive-motive model and help-seeking attitudes. The third part is about the intervention study of help-seeking attitudes. Based on the two studies before, we use self-affirmation and self-efficacy intervention to change students’ help-seeking attitudes and compare the effects.Here are the conclusions:1.Those factors can affect the professional psychological help-seeking attitudes: gender, place of birth, grade, help-seeking experience, self-esteem, self-efficacy of being a client, the perceived social accept.2.Self-esteem has significantly influence on help-seeking attitudes. If the students has higher self-esteem, they would like to seek help in the future. The efficacy of being counseling client also has significantly effect on help-seeking. If one perceived high efficacy, he will more inclined to pursuing help. What’s more, the perceived social accept of help-seeking have significantly effect on help-seeking attitudes. If the students perceived high social accept, they will have more possibility to choose professional help-seeking.3.The efficacy of being client have partly significant indirect effect on help-seeking through self-esteem. At the same time, the self-esteem is also the mediator variable between perceived social accept of help-seeking and professional help-seeking attitudes.4.The intervention of self-esteem can improve the professional psychological help-seeking attitudes. In the intervention group of self-esteem, help-seeking attitudes increase among these students. There is significant change in the intervention group. In the self-efficacy intervention group, there was no significant change in the intervention group and the control group on help-seeking attitudes.