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African American College Students’ Attitudes Toward Help Seeking For Mental Health Illness, Sylvia Krow
African American College Students’ Attitudes Toward Help Seeking For Mental Health Illness, Sylvia Krow
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Past research has shown that African Americans are less likely to seek treatment for mental health illness compared to individuals in other ethnic groups. Research has also revealed that African American college students’ attitudes, perceptions, and stigmas against mental illness impacts their willingness to seek treatment for mental illness. The purpose of this quantitative, nonexperimental, correlational study was to investigate the predictive relationships between ethnic identity, perceptions of mental illness, stigma and attitudes toward seeking professional help for mental illness among African American college students attending Historically Black colleges and universities. The research question addressed the predictive relationships between ethnic …