TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - College students' intentions to seek help for suicidal ideation: accounting for the help-negation effect
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Yakunina, Elena S.
A1  - Rogers, James R.
A1  - Waehler, Charles A.
A1  - Werth, James L.
SP  - 438
EP  - 450
VL  - 40
IS  - 5
N2  - Prior research has identified a negative association between suicidal ideation and help-seeking, a phenomenon called "help-negation." Help-negation has been documented to occur for both professional and nonprofessional sources of help. In this study help-seeking attitudes, stigma concerns, and perceptions of social support were examined as possible mediators of help-negation. Data were collected from a nonclinical sample of college undergraduates at a midwestern university (N = 321). Findings provided partial support for the mediation hypotheses. Help-seeking attitudes and stigma were significant predictors of help-seeking intentions (β = .34 and β = -.17, p < .05, respectively), but did not mediate helpnegation for professional sources. Perceptions of social support, on the other hand, fully mediated help-negation for nonprofessional sources (β = .27, p < .05).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2010.40.5.438
ID  - ref1
ER  -