Help-Seeking for Mental Health Care among Asian American College Students

Patel, Dhara; Unnam, Pavani

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Title

Help-Seeking for Mental Health Care among Asian American College Students

Author(s)

• Patel, Dhara
• Unnam, Pavani

Issue Date

2023

Keyword(s)

• mental health care
• Asian American
• College students

Abstract

Research shows that Asian Americans have the highest rate (69%) among ethnic groups of individuals with depression not seeking mental health treatment (Jung et al., 2020). However, there have not been any research examining the roles of gender and cultural values surrounding emotional openness and expressiveness on Asian American students’ help-seeking. This study seeks to examine what culturally-relevant factors may contribute to Asian American college students’ mental health stigma and help-seeking behaviors. Approximately 70 Asian American college students will be recruited through Asian American student organizations nationwide and using a snowball sampling method to complete an online Qualtrics survey. Participants were asked to complete the Stigma Scale for Receiving Psychological Help (Komiya et al., 2000), Self-Stigma Associated with Seeking Psychological (Vogel et al., 2006), Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help-Short Form ATSPPH-S (Fischer & Farina, 1995), Gender Role Attitudes Scales (Garcia-Cueto et al., 2015), Traditional Masculinity-Femininity Scale (Kachel et al., 2016), Self-Expressiveness Within the Family: Short Form (Halberstadt et al., 1995), Attitude Toward Seeking Psychological Help Among Community (Chen et al., 2020) Emotional Openness (Komiya, 2000), and demographics. Using multiple regression, we will examine the moderational role of self-stigma, gender roles, parents’ emotional openness, and self-expressiveness within one’s family on the relationship between mental health stigma and help-seeking. Multiple mediation models using bootstrap analyses (Preacher & Hayes, 2008) will be used to examine whether stigma mediates the relationship between gender roles and helpseeking. Practical implications on mental health stigma and help seeking for this population will be discussed.

Publisher

self

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

UIS Brookens Library

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Dhara Patel & Pavani Unnam, 2023

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