2023 Volume 56 Issue 2 Pages 79-107
This systematic review was aimed at to summarize which factors are relating to help-seeking in Japanese studies. A literature search using CiNii and hand search yielded 1055 articles. Among these articles, 43 eligible articles which dealt with network variables, personality variables, or one’s own symptoms or the seriousness of the problems were obtained. As a result, the following six findings were suggested. (1) Social support is positively related to help-seeking intentions when the source of support and the person to seek help is corresponding. However, it has little correlation with help-seeking intentions when the source of support and the person to seek help is not corresponding. (2) Prior experience of contact with helper is related to help-seeking intentions. (3) Self-esteem has little correlation with neither help-seeking intentions nor help-seeking attitudes. (4) Problems that represent needs for help are positively related to help-seeking intentions. (5) While mental health has little correlation with help-seeking intentions, some indices of depressive symptoms are negatively related to help-seeking intentions. (6) For help-seeking attitudes, there are no consistent results except for the relations to self-esteem.
