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| Title |
Understanding help-seeking amongst university students: the role of group identity, stigma, and exposure to suicide and help-seeking
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, September 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01462 |
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| Authors |
Michelle Kearns, Orla T. Muldoon, Rachel M. Msetfi, Paul W. G. Surgenor |
| Abstract |
Despite a high prevalence of suicide ideation and mental health issues amongst university students, the stigma of help-seeking remains a barrier to those who are in real need of professional support. Social identity theory states that help received from an ingroup source is more welcome and less threatening to one's identity than that from a source perceived as outgroup. Therefore, we hypothesized that students' stigma toward seeking help from their university mental health service would differ based on the strength of their identification with the university. An online survey including measures of stigma of suicide, group identification, experience with help-seeking and exposure to suicide was administered to Irish university students (N = 493). Group identification was a significant predictor of help-seeking attitudes after controlling for already known predictors. Contrary to our expectations, those who identified more strongly with their university demonstrated a higher stigma of seeking help from their university mental health service. RESULTS are discussed in relation to self-categorization theory and the concept of normative fit. Practical implications for mental health service provision in universities are also addressed, specifically the need for a range of different mental health services both on and off-campus. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 10 | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |
| Guyana | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 13 | 52% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 14 | 56% |
| Scientists | 6 | 24% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 12% |
| Unknown | 2 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 189 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 188 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 32 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 11% |
| Researcher | 16 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 19 | 10% |
| Unknown | 59 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 77 | 41% |
| Social Sciences | 11 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 16 | 8% |
| Unknown | 63 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 October 2016.
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#2,047,766
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Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#4,064
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#29,901
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#78
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