关于美国国际学生心理健康的难忘信息:一种混合方法研究
Muhammad Ittefaq1, Tobias Reynolds-Tylus1
1School of Communication Studies, James Madison University.
Health communication
|May 23, 2024
概括
国际学生回忆说,他们对心理健康的信息进行了规范化和策略化,这导致了更大的满意度和寻求帮助的意愿. 尽量减少消息的效果不那么好,这凸显了需要支持性沟通策略的需要.
科学领域:
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
- 沟通研究 沟通研究
- 国际学生支持国际学生支持
背景情况:
- 国际学生面临独特的心理健康挑战,适应新的学术和社会环境.
- 了解收到的信息对他们的心理健康感知和寻求帮助行为的影响至关重要.
- 现有的研究缺乏专注于影响国际学生心理健康的特定信息类型.
研究的目的:
- 调查国际学生在美国收到的令人难忘的心理健康信息.
- 分析信息类型 (规范化,策略化,最小化) 与结果 (如满意度和寻求帮助) 之间的联系.
- 为这一群体提供开发有效心理健康沟通策略的见解.
主要方法:
- 对199名国际学生进行的调查,调查了关于令人难忘的心理健康信息.
- 利用难忘的消息框架来分类消息类型.
- 分析了信息回忆,信息满意度,心理健康耻辱和寻求帮助的态度之间的相关性.
主要成果:
- 最常被回忆的是规范化信息 (49.2%),其次是策略化 (31.7%) 和最小化 (9.5%).
- 回忆正常化和策略化信息与更高的满意度和对寻求帮助更积极的态度有关.
- 尽量减少信息与较低的满意度和对寻求帮助不那么有利的态度有关.
结论:
- 规范化和策略化信息积极影响国际学生的心理健康观念和寻求帮助的意图.
- 最小化信息可能会无意中增加耻辱感,并阻止寻求帮助的行为.
- 调查结果为有针对性的活动设计和大学支持服务提供了信息,以促进国际学生的心理健康.
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