TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - College students' peer-helping behaviors and stigma of seeking help: testing a moderated mediation model
JO  - Journal of American college health
A1  - Kuhlman, Shane T. W.
A1  - McDermott, Ryon C.
A1  - Kridel, Matthew M.
A1  - Kantra, Lacy M.
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0744-8481
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1506791
ID  - ref1
ER  -