感知控制缓和了寻求精神卫生服务的内化耻辱模式,在困难的老年人中寻求心理健康服务
Dallas J Murphy1, Corey S Mackenzie1, Robert P Dryden1
1Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba.
Journal of counseling psychology
|April 11, 2024
概括
感知控制 (PC) 较低的老年人更容易受到内化耻辱的侵害,这降低了他们寻求心理健康服务的可能性. 加强PC的干预措施可能会改善这个人群寻求帮助的行为.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
背景情况:
- 老年人对寻求心理健康服务表现出不情愿,这往往是由于内化污名.
- 有限的研究存在于老年人的特定小组,这些小组受到寻求帮助行为的耻辱影响.
研究的目的:
- 调查感知控制 (PC) 在老年人寻求心理健康帮助的内化耻辱模型中的调节作用.
- 了解公众的耻辱如何被内化为自我耻辱,以及它对寻求帮助的态度和意图的影响,特别是对于那些有不同程度的PC的人来说.
主要方法:
- 利用了对348名65岁以上的加拿大心理困扰成年人的横截面二次数据的调节调解分析.
- 雇员在线调查测量了公众的耻辱,自我耻辱,寻求帮助的态度,有条件的寻求帮助的意图,心理痛苦和感知控制 (PC).
主要成果:
- 感知控制 (PC) 调节了内部化的耻辱模型.
- 低PC的个体在公众的耻辱和寻求帮助的意图之间表现出更强烈的负面联系,以自我耻辱和态度为媒介.
- 较低的PC与公众耻辱的更大内化和更负面的态度有关,预测帮助寻求意图减少.
结论:
- 研究结果强调,感知控制 (PC) 较低的老年人特别容易受到污名对寻求心理健康帮助的负面影响.
- 建议采取旨在增强PC的干预措施,以减轻耻辱的内化和改善老年人中心理健康服务的利用率.
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