Attitudes towards seeking psychological help among a sample of Turkish university students: the roles of rumination and internal working models

2014-01-01
Turan, Numan
Erdur Baker, Özgür
The current study investigates how attitudes towards seeking psychological help relate to internal working models of attachment (self-model and other-model) and ruminative tendencies. The study includes 589 Turkish university students (278 females, 308 males and 3 unknown) by implementing a convenient sampling procedure. The average age of the participants was 22.4 years (SD = 2.2). Participants were administered the Attitudes toward Seeking Psychological Help-Short, the Relationship Questionnaire and the Rumination Scale. The results of the study indicate that the other-model and rumination have a relationship to women's help-seeking attitudes whereas the self-model has a relationship to men's help-seeking attitudes. The results are discussed in light of the related literature.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE & COUNSELLING

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Citation Formats
N. Turan and Ö. Erdur Baker, “Attitudes towards seeking psychological help among a sample of Turkish university students: the roles of rumination and internal working models,” BRITISH JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE & COUNSELLING, pp. 86–98, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/46491.