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Ashworth, E and Saini, P (2024) Increasing help-seeking intentions for mental health difficulties in early adolescence: The role of cumulative promotive factors. Adversity and Resilience Science. ISSN 2662-2424
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Abstract
Despite evidence to suggest that receiving support for mental health difculties can improve later outcomes, adolescents often
do not seek help when needed. While factors that reduce the likelihood of help-seeking intentions are well established, little
is known about the factors that may increase adolescents’ intentions to seek help. This study sought to identify promotive
factors for general help-seeking intentions, as well as help-seeking intentions from formal and informal sources specifcally,
and to test the assumptions of cumulative promotion theory in relation to help-seeking. Participants comprised 290 early
adolescents (aged 11–14) in Northwest England who completed a suite of online measures assessing their mental health,
wellbeing, and help-seeking intentions. Candidate promotive factors were modelled, and a cumulative promotive index (CPI)
score was generated for each participant. Hierarchical regression was used to analyse the data. A range of promotive factors
were identifed for help-seeking intentions. CPI scores were signifcant predictors of all three help-seeking outcomes, even
after accounting for the variance explained by the individual promotive factors. Thus, this study confrms two key tenets of
cumulative promotion theory in relation to help-seeking intentions amongst adolescents: (1) as the number of promotive
factors increases, intentions to seek help for mental health difculties also increase, and (2) the number of promotive factors
is more important than their nature when increasing help-seeking intentions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Psychology (from Sep 2019) |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2024 12:20 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2024 12:30 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1007/s42844-024-00137-0 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/23143 |
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