Influence of self-concealment on college students’ attitudes toward professional psychological help-seeking:the chain mediating effect of help-seeking stigma and psychological distress
DU Meijie, GOU Shuangyu,WANG Lingli, YANG Yuli, ZHANG Wanzhu.
School of Medical Humanities, Guizhou Medical University,Guiyang 550025, China
DU Meijie,GOU Shuangyu,WANG Lingli, et al. Influence of self-concealment on college students’ attitudes toward professional psychological help-seeking:the chain mediating effect of help-seeking stigma and psychological distress[J]. JOURNAL OF WEZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, 2022, 52(5): 405-409.
Abstract：Objective: To explore the multiple mediating effects of professional psychological stigma and psychological distress on self-concealment and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. Methods: Totally 995 college students were selected and investigated using the self-concealment scale, the professional psychological help seeking stigma scale, the psychological distress scale and the attitude toward seeking professional psychological help-short form. Results: Correlation analysis showed that SCS and K10 were significantly correlated with the stigma of seeking psychological help scale scores (r=0.433, 0.479, 0.511,P<0.01). There was significant negative correlation between these three factors and the attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help (r=-0.356, -0.197, -0.197, P<0.01). A structural equation model was established with self-concealment as independent variable, with attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help as dependent variable, with psychological distress and psychological help-seeking stigma as mediating variable. All indexes fit well (χ2/df=3.984, GFl=0.994, AGFI=0.976, NFl=0.989, CFl=0.991, RMSEA=0.055). Conclusion:The stigma of seeking professional psychological help has a significant mediating effect between selfconcealment and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help, and the stigma and psychological distress have a chain mediating effect between self-concealment and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help.
