An Investigation of a Cultural Help-Seeking Model for Professional Psychological Services With U.S. and Chinese Samples

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ID7842854
AutoresX Song (0000-0002-9693-200X, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA, autor correspondente), Timothy Anderson (0000-0001-7224-2728, Ohio University, Athens, USA), Lina Himawan (Ohio University, Athens, USA), Lina K Himawan (0000-0002-2641-1655, Ohio University), Andrew McClintock (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Andrew S McClintock (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Yan Jiang (0000-0001-9615-8600, Shanghai University), Shannon McCarrick (Access Community Health Centers, Madison, USA), Shannon M McCarrick (Community Health Center)
Ano2019
Volume50
Fascículo9
Páginas1027-1049
Data de publicação2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0221 • E-ISSN: 1552-5422
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022022119878506
OpenAlexW2980337208
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas72

Help-seeking processes for participants in the People’s Republic of China and the United States were modeled in the present study. The decision to seek professional services for mental health problems (e.g., psychotherapy) has been primarily studied by applying principles from the theory of planned behavior and reasoned action (TPB). Application of the TPB has commonly been used with a three-level empirical model of help-seeking, whereby expectations/barriers to help-seeking predict attitudes toward therapy, which in turn predicts intentions and behaviors to seek professional help. Informed by the TPB, the present study added a cultural-contextual level to the model to account for the role of cultural identity variables, which included independent and interdependent self-construal as well as gender. The resulting four-level model, the cultural help-seeking (CHS) model, was compared with the conventional three-level help-seeking model using data collected from 296 college students from Mainland China and 334 college students from the United States. Separate analyses were conducted for the Chinese group and American group. Chinese versions of the questionnaires were developed for the present study using translation and back-translation procedures. Using structural regression modeling, the four-level CHS model provided a better fit than the three-level traditional model for both the U.S. and Chinese samples. However, the specific decisional pathways within this four-level model were structurally different for the U.S. and Chinese samples. Findings suggest that including cultural-contextual variables as a first level of the professional help-seeking model is supported by both samples

China · Control (management · Help-seeking · Interdependence · Mainland China · Mental health · Political science · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Structural equation modeling · Theory of planned behavior · Applied Psychology · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Community Health and Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social Psychology