心理専門機関の利用を勧める意識に関連する要因の探索的検討

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This exploratory study investigated factors related to attitudes toward referring others to psychological services. In the preliminary investigation, participants were presented a hypothetical situation of a friend who has psychological problems, and were asked whether they would refer the friend to a psychological service, elaborating on the reason for their choice. These descriptions were categorized using the KJ-method independently for three groups: referring group, ambivalent group, and non-referring group. Content analysis categories of, “image of utilizing psychological services”, “perception about seriousness of psychological problem”, and “mental burden of a friend referred to a psychological service” arose as key factors worthy of investigation further in the main research, which quantitatively investigated the relation between these main factors and attitudes toward referring others to a psychological services. Results indicated that “indifference to psychological help” which was a subscale of “image of utilizing psychological services” scale had a negative relationship, and “perception of seriousness of psychological problem” had a positive relationship with attitudes toward referring to psychological services. The implications of these findings for effective intervention to foster behavior of referring to psychological service were discussed.