2025 Volume 46 Issue 1 Pages 12-22
This study aims to clarify the features of factors in professional help-seeking behavior of college students by comparing them with adults. Logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between professional help-seeking behavior and professional help-seeking attitudes as predictors, including the two factors of professional help-seeking and self-help orientation, as well as awareness of psychological difficulties and negative perception of one’s own psychological difficulties. Both group’s help-seeking behavior was predicted by their awareness of difficulties and professional help-seeking. Contrary to adult, the self-help orientation of college students was negatively correlated with help-seeking. There were also significant correlations between the awareness of difficulties, self-help orientation and negative perception of psychological difficulties, indicating that college student would be more likely to have conflicts about help-seeking behavior. Significant corrlations were found between adults’ awareness of difficulty and help-seeking and self-help orientation. The simple slope analysis suggested that when combined with high psychological distress, high professional help-seeking and self-help orientation of adults have moderating effects on the help-seeking behavior. Using these results, we discussed effective approaches for college students.
