The influence of attitudes on mental health care service utilisation will be measured with the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale-SF (ATSPPH-SF) [ 66].
The Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Help Scale (ATSPHS) [ 22] contains 29 items, with responses on a 5-point Likert scale from 'Strongly Disagree' to 'Strongly Agree', and a neutral 'neither agree nor disagree' midpoint.
Given the existing research, the current study hypothesized autonomy would directly influence intentions to seek help for self-injury, but would also have an indirect effect on help-seeking via attitudes toward seeking help (Hypothesis 3).
Finally we predicted attitudes would mediate the effect of the need for autonomy on help-seeking intentions, such that attitudes toward seeking mental health help would explain the existing relationship between autonomy and help-seeking intentions.
The Bush administration took the first step today toward seeking settlement of the multibillion-dollar civil lawsuit against the tobacco industry.
After all, attitudes toward seeking employment can have serious implications for actual job-seeking behavior (Ajzen & Fishbein, 2005; Davies et al., 2002).
The study explores adolescents' attitudes toward seeking help for emotional problems.
Real estate agents say they are also seeing a trend toward seeking investment properties.
Within this diversity of experience, though, the trend has been toward seeking some kind of closure.
The attitude of Indian classical singers toward seeking vocal health care is a dimension yet to be explored.
With some luck and finesse, a supportive conversation with her might nudge her toward seeking the help she needs.
