- 著者
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永井 智
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本健康心理学会
- 雑誌
- 健康心理学研究 (ISSN:09173323)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.25, no.1, pp.83-92, 2012
- 被引用文献数
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5
Patterns of help-seeking intentions among junior high-school student participants (<i>n</i>=2383: 1245 men and 1138 women) were investigated. Participants were inquired about their intention to seek help from peers, parents, teachers, and school counselors. Then, the relationships between help-seeking intentions and scores in the Depression Self-Rating Scale for Children (DSRS), as well as the degree of participants' concerns were evaluated. Results indicated that most participants preferred to seek help from peers. Moreover, first-year students had the highest number of help-seeking intentions directed at parents, whereas third-year students had the highest number of help-seeking intentions regarding academic-career concerns, directed at peers and teachers. Results also indicated that students with more concerns had higher levels of help-seeking intentions. Furthermore, there were significant negative correlations between high levels of help-seeking intentions and “declining activity and pleasure” scores while correlations between help-seeking intentions and “depressive mood” scores in the DSRS were not significant. These findings suggest that depression has a negative effect on help-seeking intentions.