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| Content Provider | Springer Nature : BioMed Central |
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| Author | Dagani, Jessica Buizza, Chiara Ferrari, Clarissa Ghilardi, Alberto |
| Abstract | Background Mental health issues are common among university students, but the latter are unlikely to seek professional help even when mental health services are available. Coping strategies, stigma and psychological distress are often considered as factors that can affect help-seeking intentions in university students. Methods This study aimed to determine the role of coping strategies, stigma and psychological distress on the intentions to seek professional help for psychological problems. All students (N = 13,886) from an Italian medium-sized university were asked to participate in a multidimensional online survey and 3754 (27.1%) agreed to participate. A Structural Equation Modelling approach was applied to explore the simultaneous direct and indirect effects of distress, stigma and coping strategies on professional help-seeking intentions. Results Results showed that students were not very likely to seek professional help and, through the Structural Equation Model, psychological distress was found to be positively correlated with coping strategies, which in turn was negatively associated with the stigma of seeking help. The latter was negatively associated with professional help-seeking intentions. These effects suggest that students with significant psychological distress use coping strategies to face the stigma of seeking help: the lower the stigma of seeking help, the higher the chance of developing intentions to seek professional help. Conclusions This study suggests the importance of implementing programs to encourage college students to seek help, including measures that foster a stigma-free environment, reduce psychological distress and promote the use of adaptive coping strategies. Interventions should be focused firstly on self-stigma and secondly on perceived stigma, taking into consideration the level of psychological distress and social stereotypes associated with mental disorders and help seeking behaviours. Programs about coping are also essential and should focus on promoting emotion-focused strategies and problem-focused strategies. |
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| Ending Page | 15 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| File Format | HTM / HTML |
| ISSN | 20507283 |
| DOI | 10.1186/s40359-023-01171-w |
| Journal | BMC Psychology |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 11 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
| Publisher Date | 2023-06-06 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Psychology Research Clinical Psychology Cognitive Psychology University students Counselling Help seeking behaviour Psychological distress Stigma Coping strategies |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Medicine Psychology |
| Journal Impact Factor | 2.7/2023 |
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