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Download full textTopkaya, Nursel; Sahin, Ertugrul – Online Submission, 2019
The Barriers to Seeking Psychological Help Scale (BSPHS) was originally developed to measure factors that kept college students from seeking mental health assistance. However, the underutilization of mental health services among adults is also common, and understanding the factors that inhibit adults from seeking help for mental health issues is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Help Seeking, Barriers
Peer reviewedGençoglu, Cem; Sahin, Ertugrul; Topkaya, Nursel – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2018
The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between three factors--depression, anxiety, and stress--with general self-efficacy and forgiveness of the self, others, and situations. A convenience sample of 542 students (335 females, 207 males) was recruited from a university in the Central Black Sea Region of Turkey. Participants…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Psychological Patterns, Stress Variables, College Students
Topkaya, Nursel; Sahin, Ertugrul; Barut, Yasar – Online Submission, 2017
Research has consistently shown that barriers to seeking psychological help are multidimensional and negatively associated with formal help-seeking. However, studies examining the negative effects of barriers to seeking psychological help among diverse samples are scarce. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the negative effects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Help Seeking, Mental Health
Topkaya, Nursel; Sahin, Ertugrul; Meydan, Betül – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
The aim of this study was to develop a scale to determine the barriers affecting psychological help-seeking in college students. In line with this purpose, the validity and reliability of the scale were examined in five different studies. Exploratory factor analysis results suggested that the scale consists of five dimensions, labeled as…
Descriptors: Validity, Reliability, Barriers, College Students
Topkaya, Nursel – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
The aim of the current research is to identify which factors, and in what direction these factors influence adults' decisions to seek psychological help for their personal problems. The research was designed as a phenomenology model; the data was gathered through the semi-structured interview technique, which is mostly used in qualitative research…
Descriptors: Adults, Help Seeking, Mental Health, Health Services
Topkaya, Nursel – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
Using a sample of university students (N = 362), the role of gender and both the self-stigma and public stigma associated with one's decision to seek psychological help in predicting attitudes toward psychological helpseeking were examined. Moreover, gender differences regarding both the self-stigma and the public stigma associated with…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Students, Social Bias, Social Attitudes
