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Help-Seeking Attitudes, Mental Health Stigma, And Self-Concealment Among African American College Students., Akihiko Masuda, P. L. Anderson, J. Edmonds

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Stigma has been noted as a major obstacle of mental health service utilization in African Americans. The present study investigated whether mental health stigma and self-concealment were uniquely associated with attitudes toward seeking professional psychological services in African American college students. Data of 163 African American (n_Female = 127; 78% female) were used for present analyses. Results revealed that both mental health stigma and self-concealment were uniquely associated with help-seeking attitudes after controlling for gender, age, and previous experience of seeking professional psychological services.