@article{ref1,
title="College students' peer-helping behaviors and stigma of seeking help: testing a moderated mediation model",
journal="Journal of American college health",
year="2018",
author="Kuhlman, Shane T. W. and McDermott, Ryon C. and Kridel, Matthew M. and Kantra, Lacy M.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="1-9",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: College students are most likely to seek psychological help from their peers. Internalized public stigma (ie, personal stigma) may prevent peer-helpers from aiding others, and such help-negating effects may depend on contextual factors such as race and gender. The current study examined a moderated mediation model in which the relationship between public stigma and peer intervention behaviors was mediated by personal stigma and moderated by race and gender categories. <br><br>METHOD: Undergraduate students (N = 5,183) from the national Healthy Minds Study completed measures of help-seeking stigma and peer-helping behaviors. <br><br>RESULTS: Conditional Process Modeling revealed that personal stigma fully mediated the link between public stigma and peer-helping behaviors. Gender (but not race) moderated these associations such that the indirect and direct effects were stronger from men than women. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Peer-helper interventions may benefit from culture-specific re-norming messages and by addressing the role of gender in peer-helping.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0744-8481",
doi="10.1080/07448481.2018.1506791",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1506791"
}