APS

2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024

Help-Seeking Behavior for Mental Health Concerns Among Indian Young Adults

San Francisco, CA · May 2024

Poster · Social

  • Sneha Jindal
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Mahira Budhraja
    University of the West of England
  • Simantini Ghosh
    Ashoka University

Abstract

We assessed the relationship between Help-Seeking Behavior (HSB) and Perceived-Public Stigma (PPS), Personal-Stigma, Self-Stigma (SS), Gender-Roles Conformity, Patriarchal Beliefs, gender, and explored the facilitators of utilizing faith-based services (uFBS), among Indians (N = 150, Mage = 20.8). PPS and SS were predictors of HSB. Religiosity was a predictor of uFBS. 

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