Ting Julia Y, Hwang Wei-Chin
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2009 Jan;79(1):125-32. doi: 10.1037/a0015394.
There is considerable evidence indicating that Asian American college students have less favorable attitudes toward and are less likely to use mental health services than other ethnic groups in the United States. Because a person's attitudes are often strongly associated with their voluntary behaviors, understanding what influences help-seeking attitudes may help shed light on why Asian American college students refrain from seeking mental health treatment. Andersen's Sociobehavioral Model is commonly used as a guide to understand help-seeking in the mainstream population. A modified version of this model that includes culture-related variables (i.e., level of acculturation and stigma tolerance) was used to guide this study. Results indicated that stigma tolerance predicted help-seeking attitudes above and beyond traditional variables associated with help-seeking. These findings suggest that reducing societal stigma and increasing individual tolerance to stigma should be a focus for prevention and intervention programs on college campuses.
有大量证据表明,与美国其他种族群体相比,亚裔美国大学生对心理健康服务的态度较差,且使用心理健康服务的可能性较低。由于一个人的态度通常与其自愿行为密切相关,了解影响求助态度的因素可能有助于揭示亚裔美国大学生不愿寻求心理健康治疗的原因。安德森的社会行为模型通常被用作理解主流人群求助行为的指南。本研究使用了该模型的一个修改版本,其中包括与文化相关的变量(即文化适应水平和耻辱感容忍度)来指导研究。结果表明,耻辱感容忍度在预测求助态度方面超出了与求助相关的传统变量。这些发现表明,减少社会耻辱感和提高个人对耻辱感的容忍度应成为大学校园预防和干预项目的重点。