The Relationship among Depression, Social Support, and Help-seeking Attitudes in College Students

Autor: Huang, Yun-Ying, 黃芸瑩
Rok vydání: 2015
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 103
This study aimed to investigate the relationship among depression, social support, and help-seeking attitudes of college students in Taiwan. This study used stratified purposive sampling to choose sample of university students (N = 892). The students are in various grades from northern Taiwan. The sample were administered a battery of self- report instruments including personal data form, Tung’s Depression Inventory for College Students (TDICS), Chinese version of Social Support Questionnaire, and Chinese version of Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale - Short Form. All valid data were analyzed with Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, t-test, one-way analysis of variance, and hierarchical regression. The study revealed the following results: (a) The prevalence of college students with help-seeking experience was 20.4% (b) There were gender difference on depression, but no difference among college students of different grades. (c)There were gender and romance status difference on social support. (d) There were gender difference on help-seeking attitude. (e) A significantly correlation is shown depression, social support, and help-seeking attitudes. (f) Depression and social support significantly predict help-seeking attitudes of college students. Suggestions for research and practice as well as limitations were presented in the end of this study.
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