Social Support, Adjustment, and Psychological Distress of Help-Seeking Expatriates

Sterle, Mojca Filipič; Vervoort, Tine; Verhofstadt, Lesley

doi:10.5334/pb.464

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“…Consistent with previous studies ( 40 , 41 ), social support from society was positively associated with mental health help-seeking. Studies have shown that social support, being prompted to seek help, and knowing someone who has sought help are associated with positive attitudes toward seeking mental health services ( 42 , 43 ) as well as perceived need and the actual behavior of mental health help-seeking ( 23 , 43 , 44 ).…”

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“…These COVID-19 work-related stressors were associated with a higher likelihood of mental health help-seeking in the adjusted analysis, which is consistent with previous studies that stress may indicate higher mental health needs and prompt Corroborating previous studies (16,21,38,39), the findings demonstrated the independent effect of psychological training on help-seeking, which implies that providing essential training is a feasible and effective approach to promote help-seeking of PHW. Consistent with previous studies (40,41), social support from society was positively associated with mental health help-seeking. Studies have shown that social support, being prompted to seek help, and knowing someone who has sought help are associated with positive attitudes toward seeking mental health services (42,43) as well as perceived need and the actual behavior of mental health help-seeking (23,43,44).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

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Mental Health Help-Seeking and Associated Factors Among Public Health Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak in China

She

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Background: The COVID-19 outbreak in China has created multiple stressors that threaten individuals' mental health, especially among public health workers (PHW) who are devoted to COVID-19 control and prevention work. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of mental help-seeking and associated factors among PHW using Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Services Use (BMHSU).Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 9,475 PHW in five provinces across China between February 18 and March 1, 2020. The subsample data of those who reported probable mental health problems were analyzed for this report (n = 3,417). Logistic and hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to examine the associations of predisposing, enabling, need, and COVID-19 contextual factors with mental health help-seeking.Results: Only 12.7% of PHW reported professional mental help-seeking during the COVID-19 outbreak. PHW who were older, had more days of overnight work, received psychological training, perceived a higher level of support from the society, had depression and anxiety were more likely to report mental help-seeking (ORm range: 1.02–1.73, all p < 0.05) while those worked in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were less likely to seek help (ORm = 0.57, p < 0.01). The belief that mental health issues were not the priority (64.4%), lack of time (56.4%), and shortage of psychologists (32.7%) were the most frequently endorsed reasons for not seeking help.Conclusions: The application of BMHSU confirmed associations between some factors and PHW's mental health help-seeking. Effective interventions are warranted to promote mental health help-seeking of PHW to ameliorate the negative impact of mental illness and facilitate personal recovery and routine work.

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confidence: 91%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Mental Health Help-Seeking and Associated Factors Among Public Health Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak in China

She

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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“…Social support has increasingly been recognized as an important source of support for people with stressful life situations (Filipič Sterle et al, 2018). In the current study, participants who did not have extended family or relatives in Australia could not rely on relatives and could not find support from their community and neighbours.…”

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confidence: 99%

Challenges, coping and resilience in caring for children with disability among immigrant parents: A mixed methods study

Alsharaydeh

Alqudah

Lee

et al. 2022

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aims To examine the relationships between challenges, coping and resilience among immigrant parents caring for their children with disabilities; and to explore their coping and resilient experiences and the service centre providers' perspectives on these. Design A sequential explanatory mixed methods study. Methods The participants were recruited from seven centres of disability service in Australia between May 2019 and February 2020. Phase 1 consisted of a cross‐sectional survey. Data were collected from 134 immigrant parents. Phase 2 consisted of semi‐structured interviews. Data were collected from nine immigrant parents and nine service providers. The findings from each phase were analysed separately and then integrated to answer the research aims. Results Immigrant parents experienced challenges such as overwhelming caretaking responsibilities, lack of supportive social networks and feeling embarrassment over their children's behaviours. They used a variety of coping strategies, including reframing and mobilizing family to acquire and accept help from others to overcome their challenges. They had positive gains from the parental experience. Immigrant parents had a reasonable level of resilience. Those with a higher level of perceived challenges had a lower level of coping and resilience. Perceived barriers to parental coping included barriers to establishing social networks and utilizing available disability services. Services from competent service providers and the availability of social support networks were factors facilitating immigrant parents' coping. Conclusion Sensitive communication and culturally appropriate care provided by service providers and healthcare professionals can facilitate service utilization and reduce perceived stigma over children with disability. Impact Findings from the study support that special training provided to healthcare providers about the challenges of immigrant parents raising children with disabilities may enhance awareness of the experience of these parents. Information and instrumental support may help to enhance parental coping, reduce isolation and promote their mental health. Patient or Public Contribution We thank the immigrant parents and the service providers who have been instrumental in the conception of this study.

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“…Prior studies have shown that socioemotional support strongly influences adolescent adjustment and developmental outcomes (Ni et al, 2016 ; Sterle et al, 2018 ; Wright and Wachs, 2019 ). Defined as the range of behaviors through which one person conveys love (i.e., affection or emotional acceptance) and esteem (i.e., respect or social acceptance) toward another person, socioemotional support is one of the major domains of social support satisfying the most basic emotional needs of individuals (Foa and Foa, 1974 ).…”

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Perceived Discrimination and Aggression Among Chinese Migrant Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model

Xiong

Xia

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Previous research has showed that Chinese rural-to-urban migrant adolescents are at high risk for discrimination, negative emotions, and aggression. However, little is known about how discrimination, negative emotions, and aggression are interrelated and whether social support addressing the emotional needs of the adolescents would moderate the relationship of discrimination to aggression. This study attempts to fill these gaps. Based on prior research, it is proposed that perceived discrimination relates to reactive aggression by increasing negative emotions that foster aggressive responses to stressful events. Considering the central role that negative emotions may play, it is also hypothesized that socioemotional support provided by family, friends, and community mitigates the impact of perceived discrimination on reactive aggression by reducing negative emotions. The results obtained from the analysis of two-wave survey data collected from a probability sample of 470 migrant students aged 11–17 (46.17% female; mean age = 13.49) in China supported these hypotheses. The findings indicate that perceived discrimination fosters negative emotions, which in turn increase reactive aggression. Additionally, socioemotional support reduces the adverse impact of perceived discrimination on reactive aggression by weakening the link between perceived discrimination and negative emotions. Practical and policy implications of these findings are discussed.

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Social Support, Adjustment, and Psychological Distress of Help-Seeking Expatriates

Cited by 17 publications

References 52 publications

Mental Health Help-Seeking and Associated Factors Among Public Health Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak in China

Mental Health Help-Seeking and Associated Factors Among Public Health Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak in China

Challenges, coping and resilience in caring for children with disability among immigrant parents: A mixed methods study

Perceived Discrimination and Aggression Among Chinese Migrant Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model

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