Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33124, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2021 Jun;52(3):365-375. doi: 10.1007/s10578-020-01017-1.
While extensive evidence links service use for mental health problems to demographic variables and positive attitudes, studies have not explored the role of transdiagnostic risk factors, like distress intolerance (DI) and repetitive negative thinking (RNT). This study examined the relationship between parental DI and RNT on mental health treatment seeking for parents themselves and their children. Results suggest higher DI and RNT predict service use among parents (p < 0.05) but were not significantly associated with help seeking for their children, indicating that factors more proximal to the child may have greater influence when parents make treatment decisions for their children. Results also indicte that DI moderates the relationship between parent psychopathology and parent service use, such that parent psychopathology is significantly associated with service use for those with lower DI, but not at moderate or high levels of DI. Implications for marketing mental health information to parents and engaging them in treatment are discussed.
尽管大量证据表明，心理健康问题的服务利用与人口统计学变量和积极态度有关，但研究尚未探讨普遍性风险因素（如痛苦耐受力差和重复性消极思维）的作用。本研究探讨了父母的痛苦耐受力和重复性消极思维对父母自身和子女心理健康治疗寻求的影响。结果表明，较高的痛苦耐受力和重复性消极思维预测了父母的服务利用（p<0.05），但与子女的求助行为没有显著关联，这表明当父母为子女做出治疗决策时，更接近孩子的因素可能具有更大的影响。结果还表明，痛苦耐受力调节了父母精神病理学与父母服务利用之间的关系，对于痛苦耐受力较低的父母，父母的精神病理学与服务利用显著相关，但在痛苦耐受力中等或较高水平时则不相关。讨论了向父母营销心理健康信息和让他们参与治疗的意义。
