Differential Effects of Parental and Self-Stigma on Intentions to Seek Counseling

Surapaneni, Spurty; Larson-Konar, Dylan; Larson, Lisa M.; Wei, Meifen

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“…In the process of raising and educating their children, parents transmit both their own advantages and disadvantages to their children and influence their psychological and behavioral development [ 60 ]. The effects of parenting on offspring loneliness and stigma have been explored in previous studies [ 35 , 61 ]. However, the literature has not addressed the phenomenon of intergenerational transmission of loneliness stigma.…”

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The effect of parental regulatory focus on the loneliness stigma of college children

Fan,

Shi,

Zhang

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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Background The present study aimed to examine the relationship between regulatory focus and loneliness stigma, as well as the intergenerational transmission of the two. Specifically, the study analyzed the effects of fathers’ and mothers’ regulatory focus on their own and their spouses’ stigma of loneliness. In addition, a mediation model was constructed to explore how parents’ regulatory focus influences their children’s stigma of loneliness and the potential mediating mechanisms involved. Methods Questionnaires were distributed to 470 college students and their parents, employing the Regulatory Focus Questionnaire (RFQ) and the Stigma of Loneliness Scale (SLS) to collect data. Results The analysis of intergenerational transmission effects revealed that parents’ regulatory focus and loneliness stigma significantly and positively predicted children’s regulatory focus and loneliness stigma, respectively. The Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) elucidated that both fathers’ and mothers’ promotion focus exerted significant influence on both actor and partner’s loneliness stigma. Furthermore, the mediation model analysis indicated that parents’ loneliness stigma, along with children’s regulatory focus operate as mediators in the influence of parental regulatory focus on loneliness stigma of their college-aged offspring. Conclusions From a familial context, this study, investigated the association between regulatory focus and loneliness stigma, along with the mediating roles within parent-child groups and couples. The findings enhanced our comprehension of the interrelation between regulatory focus and loneliness stigma, underpinned by empirical evidence.

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The effect of parental regulatory focus on the loneliness stigma of college children

Fan,

Shi,

Zhang

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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“…Finally, it is possible that our method of assessing for close others’ stigma—asking participants to think about “people you interact with,” without specifying the specific relationship(s)—resulted in participants keeping in mind very different types of relationships when providing the responses to the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help scale (PSOSH; Vogel et al, 2009). There are empirical examples of the PSOSH being used to ask about specific types of people (e.g., “unit leaders/command,” Blais et al, 2023; a parental figure, Surapaneni et al, 2022) and their stigmatizing attitudes toward seeking professional help. This type of specificity might be especially promising to elucidate the different levels of stigma and their roles among Christian Asian Americans, depending on who is stigmatizing.…”

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Emotion, Religious Coping, Stigma, and Help-Seeking Attitudes Among Asian Americans: Examination of Moderated Mediation

Locke,

Kim

2023

Journal of Psychology and Theology

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While there is an abundance of research on the relationship between stigma and help-seeking attitudes among Asian Americans, few studies have examined how emotion and religious variables influence this relationship. Thus, using a moderated mediation model, we investigated how emotion regulation, emotion socialization, and religious coping might affect the relationship between close others’ stigma, self-stigma, and help-seeking among a sample of Asian American students ( N = 105) from a Christian university. We predicted that (a) self-stigma would positively mediate the association between close others’ stigma and help-seeking attitudes, and (b) emotion regulation, emotion socialization, and religious coping would moderate this relationship. Mediation results showed that close others’ stigma was related to self-stigma, which in turn was associated with help-seeking attitudes. Moreover, this mediating relationship was moderated by religious coping ( n = 70) but not emotion socialization or regulation; emotion regulation and help-seeking attitudes, however, were positively correlated. These findings highlight the influence of religious coping and emotion regulation strategies on views of counseling, and we reflect on some implications of these findings.

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Differential Effects of Parental and Self-Stigma on Intentions to Seek Counseling

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The effect of parental regulatory focus on the loneliness stigma of college children

The effect of parental regulatory focus on the loneliness stigma of college children

Emotion, Religious Coping, Stigma, and Help-Seeking Attitudes Among Asian Americans: Examination of Moderated Mediation

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