Association between interpersonal resources and mental health professional help-seeking among Chinese adolescents with probable depression: mediations via personal resources and active coping

作者：Hui Lü, Yanqiu Yu, Deborah Baofeng Wang, Anise M. S. Wu, Juliet Honglei Chen, Guohua Zhang, Yili Wu, Joseph T. F. Lau · 发表于：BMC Psychiatry · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1186/s12888-024-06271-4 · 被引用次数：17 · 研究领域：Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout、Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development、Mental Health Treatment and Access

BACKGROUND: Globally, adolescent depression is prevalent. There is, however, a dearth of studies investigating behavioral intention to professional help-seeking regarding mental health problems among adolescents having probable depression. Based on the Stress Coping Theory, the hypothesis that personal resources and active coping would mediate between interpersonal resources and behavioral intention to professional help-seeking was investigated. METHODS: Students from five junior middle schools, three senior high schools, and one vocational school were selected to participate in the survey from February to March 2022 via convenient sampling. The questionnaire collected participants' characteristics, depression, peer acceptance/support, resilience, self-compassion, active coping, and behavioral intention to professional help-seeking. The final sample included 1,425 Chinese adolescents having probable depression (Patient Health Questionnaire score ≥ 10). SPSS 23.0 and Mplus 8.3 were employed to analyze the data. RESULTS: The prevalence of behavioral intention to professional help-seeking was 15.4%. Adjusted for background factors, peer acceptance, resilience, self-compassion, and active coping were significantly associated with behavioral intention to professional help-seeking (ORa ranged from 1.05 to 1.31). The indirect effects via active coping (β = 0.020) and a serial indirect effect via personal resources and active coping (β = 0.029) were statistically significant. The dir...