Help-Seeking Tendencies and Subjective Well-Being: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the United States and Japan - Verity Y. Q. Lua, Nadyanna M. Majeed, Andree Hartanto, Angela K.-y. Leung, 2022 Help-seeking is commonly conceived as an instrumental behavior that improves people’s subjective well-being. However, most findings supporting a positive associ...

Research implies that #HelpSeeking improves individuals' well-being. This study emphasizes how crucial it is to be #CulturallyResponsive in research, as they found that while help-seeking improves well-being in American participants, and did not for Japanese. tinyurl.com/3cawycry 🔎😧

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Gender roles can affect how we connect with others, our priorities, our tendency to seek help, and our health in general...
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This qualitative study aims to analyze #HelpSeeking behavior in caregivers.🤝 #Caregivers of individuals with first episode Psychosis were interviewed about the responses recieved from health professionals upon asking for help. Only 3 were referred to a psychiatrist! ❤️‍🩹 tinyurl.com/yc8c27ps

Help-seeking behaviors for mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review During the COVID-19 pandemic, the nature of communication has changed dramatically owing to lockdowns and the need for social distancing with ongoing outbreaks. As a result, patient's help-seeking beh...

A systematic review was conducted to better understand the impact of #COVID19 😷on mental health patients' #HelpSeeking behavior. Findings suggest lower rates of help-seeking and delays in doing so 🗣️. Could this have negatively impacted patients' treatment plans? tinyurl.com/2njxhvck

Unveiling the hidden key: can help-seeking behaviors bridge the gap between doctoral supervision relationship and research self-efficacy of PhD candidates? Doctoral supervision is a crucial aspect of the doctoral journey, influencing the research self-efficacy (RSE) of PhD candidates. However, the pathway through which supervision influences RSE is un...

Unveiling the hidden key: can help-seeking behaviors bridge the gap between doctoral supervision relationship and research self-efficacy of PhD candidates?

Jeanne Boisselier

→ doi.org/10.1080/0729...

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#CSCW2025 preprint
How do people transition from non-help-seeking to #helpseeking for #mentalhealth care?
We found “care encounters”—unexpected interactions with mental health resources that spark turning points toward more proactive care. #identity #marginality
🔗https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11277

Changes in Mental State for Help-Seekers of Lifeline Australia’s Online Chat Service: Lexical Analysis Approach Background: There is an urgent need to enhance understanding of how accessing a crisis helpline benefits help-seekers. Affective computing has the potential to transform this area of research, yet remains relatively unexplored, partly due to the scarcity of available helpline data. Objective: This study aims to explore the #feasibility of using lexical analysis to explore changes in the mental state of help-seekers accessing a crisis helpline via online chat. Methods: 6618 de-identified online chat transcripts from Lifeline Australia were examined using the validated Empath lexical categories of Positive Emotion, Negative Emotion, Suffering, and Optimism. Distress and Suicidality categories were also developed and analyzed as context specific for crisis support. One-way ANOVAs were used to assess change in each category across the beginning, middle, and end phases of conversation. Results: The context specific categories of Distress (d=.79) and Suicidality (d=.49) showed the strongest improvements across phases of conversation. The most frequently occurring member terms representing Distress were ‘hard’, ‘bad’, and ‘down’, and for Suicidality were ‘suicide’, ‘stop’, and ‘hurt’. The negatively framed Empath categories of Suffering (d=.49) and Negative Emotion (d=.39) also significantly reduced. The positively framed Empath categories also significantly reduced, however, with fewer terms associated with Positive Emotion (d=.15) and Optimism (d=.07) from the beginning to end of conversation. Conclusions: This study has demonstrated the #feasibility of using lexical analysis to represent and monitor changes in mental state in online crisis support. The findings suggest that lexical analysis could be applied to improving crisis support service delivery and outcome measurement, with further validation.

JMIR Formative Res: Changes in Mental State for Help-Seekers of Lifeline Australia’s Online Chat Service: Lexical Analysis Approach #MentalHealth #CrisisSupport #LifelineAustralia #HelpSeeking #OnlineChat

Our latest article has been published Open Access! This study was part of my PhD research and explores the help-seeking experiences of supporters of older victims of abuse. #OlderVictims #HelpSeeking #Reporting #AbuseofOlderPeople