Introduction
Mental health literacy and professional psychological help-seeking attitudes
Mental health literacy, psychological help-seeking stigma, and professional psychological help-seeking attitudes
Mental health literacy, distress disclosure, and professional psychological help-seeking attitudes
The potential chain mediating models
The current study
Hypothesis 1: Psychological help-seeking stigma would mediate the connection between mental health literacy and professional psychological help-seeking attitudes. Hypothesis 2: Distress disclosure would mediate the connection between mental health literacy and professional psychological help-seeking attitudes. Hypothesis 3: Together, psychological help-seeking stigma and distress disclosure might play mediating chain roles in the association between mental health literacy and professional psychological help-seeking attitudes.
Methods
Participants
Measures
Statistical analyses
Result
Demography
Total N (%) | |
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Gender | |
Male | 230 (27.8) |
Female | 597 (72.2) |
Education | |
High school and below | 46 (5.5) |
Junior college | 50 (6.0) |
Undergraduate | 508 (61.4) |
Postgraduate | 223 (27.0) |
Seek professional psychological counseling | |
Yes | 262 (31.7) |
No | 565 (68.3) |
Preliminary and correlation analyses
M | SD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. Mental health literacy | 2.642 | 0.548 | 1 | |||
2. Psychological help-seeking stigma | 2.111 | 0.647 | -0.102** | 1 | ||
3. Distress disclosure | 3.502 | 0.806 | 0.141*** | -0.367*** | 1 | |
4. Professional psychological help-seeking attitudes | 2.942 | 0.374 | 0.287*** | -0.469*** | 0.358*** | 1 |
Mediation analyses
Pathway | β | SE | Boot LLCI | Boot ULCI |
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Direct effect | ||||
Mental health literacy → Psychological help-seeking stigma | -0.112 | 0.043 | -0.195 | -0.029 |
Mental health literacy → Distress disclosure | 0.080 | 0.040 | 0.001 | 0.158 |
Mental health literacy → Professional psychological help-seeking attitudes | 0.185 | 0.043 | 0.103 | 0.271 |
Psychological help-seeking stigma → Distress disclosure | -0.413 | 0.042 | -0.492 | -0.330 |
Psychological help-seeking stigma → Professional psychological help-seeking attitudes | -0.615 | 0.054 | -0.721 | -0.511 |
Distress disclosure → Professional psychological help-seeking attitudes | 0.147 | 0.053 | 0.038 | 0.245 |
Indirect effects | ||||
Mental health literacy → Psychological help-seeking stigma → Professional psychological help-seeking attitudes | 0.012 | 0.007 | 0.019 | 0.125 |
Mental health literacy → Distress disclosure → Professional psychological help-seeking attitudes | 0.069 | 0.027 | 0.001 | 0.031 |
Mental health literacy → Psychological help-seeking stigma → Distress disclosure → Professional psychological help-seeking attitudes | 0.007 | 0.004 | 0.001 | 0.016 |