التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
College Students' Barriers to Seeking Mental Health Counseling: Scale Development and Psychometric Evaluation. |
| المؤلفون: |
Shea, Munyi1 mshea@spu.edu, Wong, Y. Joel2, Nguyen, Kimmy K.3, Gonzalez, Patricia D.2 |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Counseling Psychology. Oct2019, Vol. 66 Issue 5, p626-639. 14p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*RESEARCH, *SOCIAL support, HEALTH services accessibility, PSYCHOLOGY of college students, RESEARCH evaluation, MENTAL health counseling, HISPANIC Americans, HELP-seeking behavior, SOCIAL stigma, PSYCHOLOGY, RACE, PSYCHOMETRICS, FACTOR analysis, CONCEPTUAL models, EMOTIONS, CULTURAL prejudices, SOCIAL skills |
| مستخلص: |
This article reports the development and psychometric properties of the 27-item Barriers to Seeking Mental Health Counseling (BMHC) scale, which assesses perceived help-seeking barriers among college-aged students. Across 2 studies involving ethnically diverse samples (e.g., Latinx majority students), the authors provided evidence for this new measure's validity and reliability. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (including a bifactor analysis) provided support for the BMHC scale's multidimensionality reflecting 6 barriers: Negative Perceived Value, Discomfort with Emotions, Ingroup Stigma, Lack of Knowledge, Lack of Access, and Cultural Barriers. Evidence for criterion-related validity was shown through significant but differential correlations with self-stigma, emotional control, and the 4 components of Ajzen's (1991) Theory of Planned Behavior model—attitude, subjective norm of social stigma, perceived behavioral control, and mental health help-seeking intention. Discriminant evidence of validity was established through nonsignificant or small correlations between BMHC subscales and 2 measures of socially desirable responding. The authors also found evidence for incremental validity and measurement invariance across race, and evidence for internal reliability and temporal stability of the BMHC subscales. Findings are discussed in light of the conceptual, methodological, and clinical contributions of the BMHC scale. This project reports a newly developed multidimensional measure assessing six specific types of perceived barriers to seeking mental health counseling, and their associations with various criterions of help-seeking decision making among ethnically diverse college students. Findings could inform prevention, intervention, and counselor training efforts on college campuses to promote college students' psychological well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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