Help-seeking for college students

Differences in support selection types

Abstract

This study investigated help-seeking of college students, focusing on the differences and relationships between help sources, including college counseling centers, friends, family, college faculty and staff, and Internet services. One hundred and sixty-eight college students responded to the questionnaire survey. The results revealed the following: (a) for all problems, college students sought help from friends and family more often than college counseling centers, and college faculty and staff; (b) those who sought help from friends also sought help from family or Internet services; (c) those who sought help from friends and Internet services had the highest “anxiety about being thought different from others”; and (d) those who infrequently sought help from others had the lowest “anxiety about being thought different from others.”