학술논문
Factors affecting attitude towards seeking professional help for mental illness: a UK Arab perspective.
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*ANALYSIS of variance
*ARABS
*CHI-squared test
*COGNITIVE therapy
*STATISTICAL correlation
*DISCRIMINANT analysis
*HEALTH attitudes
*HELP-seeking behavior
*MEDICAL ethics
*PRIVACY
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*SHAME
*MULTIPLE regression analysis
*ATTITUDES toward mental illness
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
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1367-4676
Abstract
This study examined various factors affecting attitude towards seeking professional psychological help (ATSPPH) in Arabs living in the UK: causal beliefs, shame-focused attitudes, confidentiality concerns, ethnic identity and demographic variables. Participants completed an online questionnaire and results indicated that Arabs showed significantly less positive ATSPPH and had stronger causal beliefs in supernatural and non-Western physiology than British Caucasians. Confidentiality concerns, but not shame-focused attitudes were significant predictors of ATSPPH; confidentiality concerns were more significant for Arabs than for British Caucasians. Implications are drawn from the results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]