Chinese Students’ Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help |
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| Authors: | Michael Goh Baozhen Xie Kay Herting Wahl Gulan Zhong Fengqin Lian John L Romano |
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| Institution: | (1) Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology Program, Department of Educational Psychology, 250 Education Sciences Building, 56 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;(2) Capital Normal University, Beijing, China |
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| Abstract: | In this study 1,453 Chinese high school and college students’ attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help and
factors contributing to attitude differences were examined. Results revealed that Chinese students possessed generally positive
attitudes and their attitudes were significantly associated with gender, prior counseling contact and prior knowledge about
counseling and psychology. Previous help-seeking behavior for a major problem was predictive of respondent attitudes. Students
with a broad range of help-seeking preferences had more positive attitudes than students with a narrower range. Students who
sought help from parents or teachers perceived counseling more positively than students not seeking such help; this result
was more significant for high school students. College students’ attitudes differed more in the area of whether or not to
seek help. In addition, family structure was related to two dimensions of attitudes toward help seeking—interpersonal openness
and stigma tolerance, but not to attitudes toward seeking psychological help. |
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| Keywords: | Chinese help-seeking Help-seeking attitudes Counseling in China |
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