Intersecting cultural identities and help-seeking attitudes: the role of religious commitment, gender, and self-stigma of seeking help

Brenner, Rachel E.; Engel, Kelsey E.; Vogel, David L.; Tucker, Jeritt R.; Yamawaki, Niwako; Lannin, Daniel G.

doi:10.1080/13674676.2018.1519782

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“…It may be possible that this view of mental illness is less likely among our sample of Canadian Muslims, which was highly educated. Additionally, while some research demonstrates that religiosity may attenuate the development of help-seeking attitudes (Brenner et al, 2018), religiosity was not related to any variable in the internalized stigma model in the current sample. These findings suggest that other factors, such as language barriers in treatment (Luk, 2008) or the availability of religiously or culturally competent therapists (Abu-Ras et al, 2008;Keshavarzi & Haque, 2013), may be better predictors of Canadian Muslims' help-seeking than acculturation, enculturation or religiosity.…”

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confidence: 81%

Internalized stigma negatively affects attitudes and intentions to seek psychological help among western Muslims: Testing a moderated serial mediation model.

Zia¹,

Mackenzie²

2024

Stigma and Health

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Muslims living in Western countries appear to utilize mental health services at lower rates than the general population despite facing significant mental health challenges. Stigma toward help-seeking may be a barrier to treatment. One model suggests that public stigma, internalized as self-stigma, leads to negative attitudes and less favorable intentions toward seeking psychological help. Cross-cultural differences in this model challenge its applicability for Western Muslims and suggest that it may be moderated by acculturation and enculturation. The first objective of this study is to investigate the applicability of the internalized stigma model (Vogel et al., 2007) in a sample of Muslims. The second objective is to explore whether acculturation and enculturation moderate this model. An online survey that included measures of public and self-stigma of help-seeking, attitudes toward help-seeking, intentions to seek help, and acculturation/enculturation was completed by 238 Canadian Muslim participants. Serial mediation analyses investigated whether public stigma predicts (a) attitudes through self-stigma and (b) intentions toward help-seeking through self-stigma and attitudes. Conditional process modeling examined whether acculturation and enculturation moderated the serial mediation models. Both mediation models were significant. Public stigma was positively associated with self-stigma, self-stigma was negatively associated with attitudes toward help-seeking, and attitudes were positively related to intentions to seek services. Acculturation and enculturation did not moderate the models. The internalized stigma model is applicable to Canadian Muslims. Previous assertions that acculturation or enculturation influence this model were not supported.

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confidence: 81%

Internalized stigma negatively affects attitudes and intentions to seek psychological help among western Muslims: Testing a moderated serial mediation model.

Zia¹,

Mackenzie²

2024

Stigma and Health

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“…For comparison, women and older adults in Brazil distinguished themselves by stronger religiosity, more distinct signs of spirituality; similar trends were also observed in the study conducted in the United States (Lee, 2011). These trends are significant in that the search for assistance pertains not only to the person's religious expectations but also to gender (Brenner et al, 2018;Keating & Fretz, 1990). For example, Brenner et al (2018) have found that men distinguishing themselves by high levels of religious commitment and self-respect sought help less often.…”

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confidence: 70%

“…These trends are significant in that the search for assistance pertains not only to the person's religious expectations but also to gender (Brenner et al, 2018;Keating & Fretz, 1990). For example, Brenner et al (2018) have found that men distinguishing themselves by high levels of religious commitment and self-respect sought help less often. This is explained by the fact that the religious persons' attitude to assistance may be influenced by their self-respect.…”

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Workplace violence: Gender and age factors in the search for religious spiritual assistance

Vveinhardt¹,

Deikus²,

Jezerskė³

2021

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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Although there is ample literature on violence in the workplace, the opportunities for religious organizations to participate in providing assistance to victims remain little investigated. Therefore, in this article, we analyse the circumstances that promote the search for religious spiritual assistance and how this corresponds to the expectations of victims of violence in the workplace. Based on the results of the empirical study, we demonstrate that despite secularization trends, a sufficient value-based foundation still remains, which makes assistance provided by religious organizations potentially acceptable to victims. Contrary to what could have been expected, men reported being victims of violence more often, and the differences between individual age groups were statistically insignificant. The age variable was important only for obtaining information on this type of assistance. Women, meanwhile, emphasized the importance of religious values more than men did, but at the same time, they also showed greater sensitivity to the contextual circumstances on which the decision to seek religious assistance depended. This article presents only part of the results of a broader scientific study, one that is exclusively related to victims' gender and age.

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“…Moreover, the study also hypothesized that religious commitment as a form of social support would further augment the prediction of life satisfaction in Latino migrants, beyond what might be accounted for by health and met expectations. Specifically, it was expected that religious commitment would uniquely operate as a positive predictor of life satisfaction (Brenner et al, 2018; Rakrachakarn et al, 2015; Wesselmann et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Acculturation of Migrant Latinos in a Positive Psychology Framework

Dryjanska

Zlotnick

2021

Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

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This article features a positive psychology perspective on migration, using hope theory as a conceptual framework to explain life satisfaction of Hispanic migrants in the United States. The cross-sectional study considers the association of acculturation and social support on wellbeing while accounting for the demographic and personal characteristics of Latino migrants ( N = 169) in California and Florida. The final regression model (with the demographic variables of gender, health, realized expectations, the main effect of country, and the interaction variable of realized expectations by country), resulted in significant associations between life satisfaction and the variables of gender and health status. The study demonstrates that expectations (among other factors) significantly predict life satisfaction of Hispanic migrants, which implies that contextualizing migration experience in the positive light (rather than looking at stressors) may impact their quality of life.

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Intersecting cultural identities and help-seeking attitudes: the role of religious commitment, gender, and self-stigma of seeking help

Cited by 26 publications

References 33 publications

Internalized stigma negatively affects attitudes and intentions to seek psychological help among western Muslims: Testing a moderated serial mediation model.

Internalized stigma negatively affects attitudes and intentions to seek psychological help among western Muslims: Testing a moderated serial mediation model.

Workplace violence: Gender and age factors in the search for religious spiritual assistance

Acculturation of Migrant Latinos in a Positive Psychology Framework

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