Kaiser Sabine, Kyrrestad Henriette, Fossum Sturla
Regional Center for Child and Youth Mental Health - North, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Scand J Child Adolesc Psychiatr Psychol. 2020 Jul 30;8:81-90. doi: 10.21307/sjcapp-2020-008. eCollection 2020.
Help-seeking is considered a constructive coping style. However, the threshold at which many adolescents seek help is relatively high, and the outcomes are not necessarily always positive.
The main aim of this study was to examine if bullying and cyberbullying victimization predicted help-seeking behavior among Norwegian adolescents.
Help-seeking behavior was predicted using three different Generalized Linear Mixed Models. In addition to demographic characteristics and mental health, these models controlled for bullying and cyberbullying, respectively.
2054 adolescents answered questions on help-seeking behavior and if they had felt the need to seek outside help with their problems, feelings, behavior, or emotional troubles within the past 6 months. Two hundred (9.7%) reported seeking outside help. Being exposed to bullying increased the likelihood of help-seeking behavior, while being exposed to cyberbullying did not. Only when forms of bullying or cyberbullying, respectively, were added to the models, did the threat of having rumors spread, both in real life and online, increase the likelihood for seeking help.
Many factors affect whether adolescents seek help for a problem. The fact that adolescents exposed to bullying seek help more often than those not exposed may be considered a success, as this behavior is encouraged by many adults, mental health professionals, and anti-bullying interventions. However, adolescents exposed to cyberbullying did not seem to seek help. Future studies should identify factors that lead to more and successful help-seeking among bullied and cyberbullied adolescents.
寻求帮助被认为是一种建设性的应对方式。然而，许多青少年寻求帮助的门槛相对较高，而且结果不一定总是积极的。
本研究的主要目的是检验挪威青少年中遭受欺凌和网络欺凌是否能预测其寻求帮助的行为。
使用三种不同的广义线性混合模型预测寻求帮助的行为。除了人口统计学特征和心理健康状况外，这些模型分别对欺凌和网络欺凌进行了控制。
2054名青少年回答了关于寻求帮助行为的问题，以及他们在过去6个月内是否觉得有必要就自己的问题、感受、行为或情绪困扰寻求外部帮助。200人（9.7%）报告寻求过外部帮助。遭受欺凌会增加寻求帮助行为的可能性，而遭受网络欺凌则不会。只有当分别将欺凌或网络欺凌的形式添加到模型中时，在现实生活和网络中传播谣言的威胁才会增加寻求帮助的可能性。
许多因素会影响青少年是否就某个问题寻求帮助。遭受欺凌的青少年比未遭受欺凌的青少年更频繁地寻求帮助，这一事实可被视为一项成果，因为这种行为得到了许多成年人、心理健康专业人员和反欺凌干预措施的鼓励。然而，遭受网络欺凌的青少年似乎并未寻求帮助。未来的研究应确定导致受欺凌和受网络欺凌的青少年更多且成功地寻求帮助的因素。
