2016
DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2015.1107660
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

How personality, coping styles, and perceived closeness influence help-seeking attitudes in suicide-bereaved adults

Abstract: This study examined the impact of personality, coping, and perceived closeness on help-seeking attitudes in suicide bereaved adults. Participants (n = 418; mean age = 49.50; 90% women, 89.7% Caucasian) completed measures of personality (neuroticism, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness), coping, and attitudes toward seeking mental health services. Regression analyses revealed neuroticism as the strongest predictor of help-seeking attitudes. Relatively neurotic adult women bereaved by su… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
2
2
1

Citation Types

1
22
0
4

Year Published

2017
2017
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
6

Relationship

0
6

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 26 publications
(27 citation statements)
references
References 34 publications
1
22
0
4
Order By: Relevance
“…PO = Psychological openness, HSP = Help seeking propensity, IS = Indifference to stigma; a Watson and Hunter (2015): N  = 95, African American women with possible anxiety/depression symptoms; b Drapeau et al (2016): N  = 418, suicide-bereaved adults; PO subscale was excluded due to low internal consistency (α = 0.68); c Mesidor and Sly (2014): N  = 111, African American College Students with possible psychological distress; d Troeung et al (2015): N  = 327, Australian adults with Parkinson’s Disease and possible mental health problems; e t -tests comparing study sample to previous research samples; * p  < .05; ** p  < .01; *** p  < 0.001.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 4 more Smart Citations
“…PO = Psychological openness, HSP = Help seeking propensity, IS = Indifference to stigma; a Watson and Hunter (2015): N  = 95, African American women with possible anxiety/depression symptoms; b Drapeau et al (2016): N  = 418, suicide-bereaved adults; PO subscale was excluded due to low internal consistency (α = 0.68); c Mesidor and Sly (2014): N  = 111, African American College Students with possible psychological distress; d Troeung et al (2015): N  = 327, Australian adults with Parkinson’s Disease and possible mental health problems; e t -tests comparing study sample to previous research samples; * p  < .05; ** p  < .01; *** p  < 0.001.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The current sample was characterized by significantly higher levels in IASMHS scales compared to most of these distressed samples (Mesidor & Sly, 2014; Troeung et al, 2015; Watson & Hunter, 2015). However, a sample of suicide-bereaved adults reported higher levels in the help-seeking propensity and the full IASMHS scale (Drapeau et al, 2016). …”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 3 more Smart Citations