Family Matters: The Role of Mental Health Stigma and Social Support on Depressive Symptoms and Subsequent Help Seeking Among African American Boys

Lindsey, Michael; Joe, Sean; Nebbitt, Von E.

doi:10.1177/0095798409355796

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“…Research has shown that African Americans' social network members play a vital role in their mental health and well-being. Strong social networks, in which African Americans have high social support and high social connectedness, are observed to be a protective factor against depressive symptoms in African Americans (Lincoln et al 2005;Lindsey et al 2010;Marshall and Rue 2012).…”

Section: Social Network Social Support and African American Mentalmentioning

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Who Can I Turn To? Emotional Support Availability in African American Social Networks

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African Americans disproportionately experience psychological distress, such as feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and worthlessness and are disproportionately exposed to risk factors associated with mental illness, such as racial discrimination, violence and poverty. To effectively address African Americans' mental health needs, it is imperative to identify who African Americans turn to when they experience stressors. The purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which emotional support is provided within African Americans' social networks and determine the characteristics of social network members who African Americans rely upon for emotional support. Results indicate that African Americans rely on social network members for spiritual and physical health support more so than emotional support. Among both male and female participants, social network members were significantly more likely to be relied upon for emotional support if they were a non-familial network contact, had a close relationship to the participant, and if they also were someone the participant spoke to about his or her physical health. Findings have implications for the development of culturally-sensitive strategies for increasing emotional support provision within African Americans' social networks.

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“…From this perspective, one's social network provides guidance about behavioral norms. Previous research has shown that social network members can positively influence individuals' mental health behaviors, such as mental health help-seeking and coping (Lindsey et al 2010). …”

Section: Social Network and Healthmentioning

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“…Particularly among young people, parental support continues to be the best predictor of affective disturbances (Zimmerman, Ramirez-Valles, Zapert, & Maton, 2000), and parental disapproval of mental health professionals is strongly associated with young people's avoidance of seeking help for mental illness (Chandra & Minkovitz, 2006;Lindsey, Joe & Nebbitt, 2010). With the transition to university, however, the importance of peer support may become more critical to help-seeking behaviors.…”

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“…With the transition to university, however, the importance of peer support may become more critical to help-seeking behaviors. This said, findings regarding the role of peer support have been inconsistent, with some research indicating a negative association between support from peers and depressive symptoms (Yang et al, 2010), while others have found a positive association between perceived support and stigma of help-seeking (as a result of a fear of losing face) (Lindsey et al, 2010), or no association between peer support and either depressive symptoms or stigma (Zimmerman et al, 2000). The effects of peer support might depend on characteristics of the specific source, including whether the support was from the same or a different ethnic group (Schneider & Ward, 2003).…”

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Support, Depressive Symptoms, and the Stigma towards Seeking Mental Health Help

Talebi

Matheson

Anisman

2013

International Journal of Social Science Studies

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Although many individuals are affected by psychological disorders, few will seek professional help. Cultural perceptions might complicate this, as emotional suppression and shame of mental illness predominate in some cultures. This online study investigated factors contributing to the stigma of seeking help among Asian (n=81) and Euro-Caucasian (n=472) students. Depressive symptoms mediated relations between social support and self-stigma for seeking help for mental health problems, as well as for academic problems. The role of depression in the relation between social support and other-stigma of seeking mental health and academic help differed by cultural group, in that the relation between depressive symptoms and stigma was more pronounced among Asians, suggesting that targeted efforts may need to be directed at specific populations.

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“…Therefore, pre-service teachers maybe begin to seek help from personals outside of the practicum school. mental health (Leavey, Rothi, & Paul, 2011;Lindsey, Joe, & Nebbitt, 2010). However, help-seeking had also been used to investigate the social support of students from parents, peers, and teachers and to predict a host of emotional and behavioral adjustments (Malecki & Demaray, 2003;Wenz-Gross & Siperstein, 1998).…”

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The Help-seeking from Social Capitals and Self-regulated Learning among Pre-service Teachers

Liu¹

2016

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This study aims to investigate the help-seeking subjects for pre-service teachers in need of suggestions for practicum and to determine the prediction of pre-service teachers' social capitals for help-seeking on their self-efficacy for help-seeking and self-regulated learning. A total of 223 pre-service teachers, from a teacher education university at the middle of Taiwan, were invited to fill in the validated questionnaire in October 2015.The analytical results of this study by Chi-square Test achieve significant differences in the five types of help-seeking subjects for the pre-service teachers in need of suggestions for practicum. Another finding of this study by multiple regression analysis indicates that the scores of seeking help from faculties in practicum school and peer interns in practicum school can jointly predict self-efficacy for help-seeking This study concludes that the pre-service teachers preferred seeking help from family members, faculties in practicum school, classmates at university and peer interns in practicum school to university professors. Moreover, pre-service teachers perceived self-efficacy for help-seeking and self-regulated learning when seeking help from faculties and peer interns in practicum schools. Interestingly, peer interns in practicum school are considered as bonding social capital but maybe play a role of suggestion-provider, similar to bridging social capital during the practicum.

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Family Matters: The Role of Mental Health Stigma and Social Support on Depressive Symptoms and Subsequent Help Seeking Among African American Boys

Cited by 187 publications

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Who Can I Turn To? Emotional Support Availability in African American Social Networks

Who Can I Turn To? Emotional Support Availability in African American Social Networks

Support, Depressive Symptoms, and the Stigma towards Seeking Mental Health Help

The Help-seeking from Social Capitals and Self-regulated Learning among Pre-service Teachers

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