The predominant measure is the attitudes towards seeking professional. The aims of the current study were to explore the factor structure of the atspph short form sf scale and determine whether any significant. The parental attitudes toward psychological services. An adaptation and extension of the attitudes toward seeking. Attitudes toward seeking professional help assessment. An adaptation and extension of the attitudes toward. Psychological distress and attitudes toward seeking help for. The 10item attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. Results indicated that mental health literacy predicted help. Gender and opinions about mental illness as predictors of attitudes. Read each statement carefully and indicate your degree of agreement using the scale below. Help seeking preferences are influenced by various attitudinal and sociodemographic factors and can often result in unmet needs, treatment gaps, and delays in help seeking. Stigma, mental health literacy, and attitudes toward. Request pdf an adaptation and extension of the attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help scale1 despite its utility, several conceptual and methodological concerns are raised.
Items are rated on a 4point likerttype scale 3 agree, 0 disagree, where items 2, 4, 8, 9, and 10 are reverse scored. Help seeking propensity reflects ones willingness and perceived ability to seek help for psychological problems. The current study investigated the relationship between students opinions about mental illness and their attitudes toward seeking professional help. Five items are reversescored such that higher scores reflect more positive attitudes.
A test of the inventory of attitudes toward seeking mental. Psychological openness reflects the degree to which an individual is open to acknowledging the presence of a psychological problem and to seek professional care for such a problem. Psychological help ssrph scale was designed by komiya and colleagues 2000 to measure. The 10item atspphsf fischer and farina, 1995 was used to measure general atspph for mental health issues. Stigma and attitudes toward professional psychological help. Pdf the attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help scale has been applied widely. Japanese university students stigma and attitudes toward. The idea of talking about problems with a psychologist strikes me as a poor way to get rid of emotional conflicts. Attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help core.
Alaska native an in predicting attitudes toward psychological help seeking for ans. Is the attitudes toward seeking professional psychological. On the other hand, the perception of the stigma toward mental illness and the publics willingness to seeking professional psychological help. Crosscultural measurement invariance of scales assessing stigma. Attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help atspph are complex. Turner 1970 developed the 29item attitudes toward seeking.
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