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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Mental Health Research
  • Stigma Studies

Background:

  • Public stigma surrounding mental health help-seeking can be internalized as self-stigma.
  • Self-stigma negatively impacts individuals' intentions to seek psychological help.
  • Experiential avoidance, the tendency to evade distressing thoughts/emotions, may influence this relationship.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if experiential avoidance moderates the association between self-stigma and help-seeking intentions.
  • To examine the moderation of experiential avoidance on the direct link between self-stigma and intentions.
  • To test the moderated indirect effect of public stigma on intentions via self-stigma, influenced by experiential avoidance.

Main Methods:

  • Conditional process modeling was employed.
  • The study involved a university student sample (N = 235).
  • Moderation analyses examined the interplay of stigma, avoidance, and intentions.

Main Results:

  • The direct relationship between self-stigma and help-seeking intentions was weaker for individuals with low experiential avoidance.
  • A moderated indirect effect was found: self-stigma's link to intentions weakened with low experiential avoidance.
  • Self-stigma predicted intentions when avoidance served to evade negative emotions.

Conclusions:

  • Experiential avoidance plays a significant role in the relationship between stigma and help-seeking intentions.
  • Interventions targeting experiential avoidance, promoting emotional openness, may reduce self-stigma's impact.
  • This approach offers a novel strategy to enhance psychological help-seeking without solely focusing on stigma reduction.