The Effect of Normative and Behavioral Persuasion on Help Seeking in Thai and American College Students

Christopher, Michael; Skillman, Gemma D.; Kirkhart, Matthew W.; D’souza, June Bernadette

doi:10.1002/j.2161-1912.2006.tb00029.x

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“…A few other known studies with non-Western populations (Christopher, Skillman, Kirkhart, & D’Souza, 2006; Lee et al, 2015; Mo & Mak, 2009; Yeh, 2002) have implicated the role of self-construal within the differential cultural help-seeking processes. For example, Christopher et al (2006) examined help-seeking from two groups of participants in Thailand.…”

Section: The Contribution Of Cultural Context To the Traditional Helpmentioning

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An Investigation of a Cultural Help-Seeking Model for Professional Psychological Services With U.S. and Chinese Samples

Song

Anderson

Himawan

et al. 2019

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Help-seeking processes for participants in the People’s Republic of China and the United States were modeled in the present study. The decision to seek professional services for mental health problems (e.g., psychotherapy) has been primarily studied by applying principles from the theory of planned behavior and reasoned action (TPB). Application of the TPB has commonly been used with a three-level empirical model of help-seeking, whereby expectations/barriers to help-seeking predict attitudes toward therapy, which in turn predicts intentions and behaviors to seek professional help. Informed by the TPB, the present study added a cultural-contextual level to the model to account for the role of cultural identity variables, which included independent and interdependent self-construal as well as gender. The resulting four-level model, the cultural help-seeking (CHS) model, was compared with the conventional three-level help-seeking model using data collected from 296 college students from Mainland China and 334 college students from the United States. Separate analyses were conducted for the Chinese group and American group. Chinese versions of the questionnaires were developed for the present study using translation and back-translation procedures. Using structural regression modeling, the four-level CHS model provided a better fit than the three-level traditional model for both the U.S. and Chinese samples. However, the specific decisional pathways within this four-level model were structurally different for the U.S. and Chinese samples. Findings suggest that including cultural-contextual variables as a first level of the professional help-seeking model is supported by both samples.

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Section: The Contribution Of Cultural Context To the Traditional Helpmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Investigation of a Cultural Help-Seeking Model for Professional Psychological Services With U.S. and Chinese Samples

Song

Anderson

Himawan

et al. 2019

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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“…There is evidence that persuasion based on different emphases in the message varies in its effect depending on culture. For example, a study amongst Americans (i.e., within an individualistic culture) found persuasion was most powerful when it focussed on the benefits of help‐seeking to the individual (Christopher, Skillman, Kirkhart, & D'Souza, ). In contrast, amongst Thai individuals (i.e., within a collectivist culture) persuasion was more powerful when it was based on whether help‐seeking would be approved or disapproved of by others in the family or community.…”

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Communication strategies used by women to influence male partners to seek professional help for mental health problems: A qualitative study

Rooney

John

Morison

2020

Clinical Psychologist

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Objective Previous research suggests that female partners have a key role in encouraging men to seek help from a mental health professional. This study investigated the communication forms that female partners use to encourage their male partners to seek help for a mental health problem. Methods Fifteen women with experience of working with a partner to seek help, aged 28–71 years, participated in a semi‐structured interview. The interviews were analysed using Thematic Analysis. Results The main themes indicated that the women initially undertook “Role Adaption/s” and changed their roles to reduce the stress on their male partners. They made “attempts to activate engagement” with their wellbeing through conversations about mental health and the benefits of help‐seeking. Discussions began with “gentle” communications, such as hinting and sowing seeds, and escalated to more assertive communications which could be conceived of as “threats” and “emotional blackmail,” if the women were concerned their partners were not seeking help or were at risk of suicide. Finally, the couples entered “Attempted Resolution” where they had conversations around help‐seeking, and/or their male partner considered suicide. Conclusions Female partners perceived themselves as having a key role in supporting men to seek help from a professional and in maintaining their partner's safety and they adapted their communication strategies to implement this. Access to high‐quality information and some amendments to general practitioner confidentiality would facilitate them in their role.

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“…Self-construals may also have important implications for the marketing of counseling services on higher educational campuses. For instance, Christopher, Skillman, Kirkhart, and D'Souza (2006) found that a marketing message emphasizing social acceptance of counseling increased help-seeking intention more than a message outlining the personal benefits of seeking counseling did in a collectivistic society (Thailand) and that the message outlining personal benefits of counseling was more effective in increasing help-seeking intention among primarily White students in a more individualistic society (United States). This suggested that help-seeking on college campuses might be enhanced by including both individualistic and collectivistic language in the counseling center's literature.…”

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Exploring the Link Between Self‐Construal and Distress Among African American and Asian American College Students

Christopher

Skillman

2009

J of College Counseling

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The authors investigated ethnicity, self‐construal, and distress among African American and Asian American college students. African American students expressed more salient independent self‐construals, whereas Asian American students expressed more salient interdependent self‐construals. As hypothesized, among African American participants, distress was positively related to interdependent self‐construal and negatively associated with independent self‐construal. Contrary to prediction, the same pattern was found for Asian American participants. Multicultural clinical practice implications are presented.

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The Effect of Normative and Behavioral Persuasion on Help Seeking in Thai and American College Students

Cited by 20 publications

References 27 publications

An Investigation of a Cultural Help-Seeking Model for Professional Psychological Services With U.S. and Chinese Samples

An Investigation of a Cultural Help-Seeking Model for Professional Psychological Services With U.S. and Chinese Samples

Communication strategies used by women to influence male partners to seek professional help for mental health problems: A qualitative study

Exploring the Link Between Self‐Construal and Distress Among African American and Asian American College Students

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