an article by Anita Laidlaw and Gozde Ozakinci (Medical School, University of St Andrews, Scotland) and Julie McLellan (Borders General Hospital, Melrose, Scotland) published in Studies in Higher Education
Volume 41 Issue 12 (2016)
Abstract
Despite relatively high levels of psychological distress, many students in higher education do not seek help for difficulties. This study explored undergraduate student understanding of the concepts of mental health and mental well-being and where undergraduate students would seek help for mental well-being difficulties.
Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 20 undergraduate students from 5 different subject areas. Interviews were transcribed and thematically analysed. Results highlighted that the majority of participants viewed mental health and mental well-being as two distinct concepts but their views did not affect where they would seek help for mental well-being difficulties.
Medical students reported public stigma relating to help seeking for mental well-being difficulties. Undergraduate students are most likely to seek help for mental well-being difficulties from peers, but whether this experience is useful is less clear.
How such an approach impacts upon the individual from whom assistance is sought is also not well understood.
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Thursday, 26 January 2017
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Symptoms of Mental Health Problems: Children’s and Adolescents’ Understandings and Implications for Gender Differences in Help Seeking
an article by Alice MacLean, Kate Hunt and Helen Sweeting (MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, UK) published in Children & Society Volume 27 Issue 3 (May 2013)
Abstract
Amidst concerns that young people’s mental health is deteriorating, it is important to explore their understandings of symptoms of mental health problems and beliefs around help seeking.
Drawing on focus group data from Scottish school pupils, we demonstrate how they understood symptoms of mental health problems and how their characterisations of these symptoms as ‘rare’ and ‘weird’ informed participants’ perceptions that peers, teachers and parents would respond to disclosure in stigmatising ways.
Consequently, participants suggested that they would delay or avoid disclosing symptoms of mental health problems.
We highlight subtle gender and age differences and outline implications for policy and practice.
Full text (PDF 13pp)
Abstract
Amidst concerns that young people’s mental health is deteriorating, it is important to explore their understandings of symptoms of mental health problems and beliefs around help seeking.
Drawing on focus group data from Scottish school pupils, we demonstrate how they understood symptoms of mental health problems and how their characterisations of these symptoms as ‘rare’ and ‘weird’ informed participants’ perceptions that peers, teachers and parents would respond to disclosure in stigmatising ways.
Consequently, participants suggested that they would delay or avoid disclosing symptoms of mental health problems.
We highlight subtle gender and age differences and outline implications for policy and practice.
Full text (PDF 13pp)
Monday, 4 March 2013
Withholding Requests for Disability Accommodation: The Role of Individual Differences and Disability Attributes
an article by David C. Baldridge and Michele L. Swift (Oregon State University, USA) published in Journal of Management Volume 39 Number 3 (March 2013)
Abstract
Prior research suggests that people with disabilities often do not request needed workplace accommodations, though relatively few studies address which factors influence the extent of such potentially self-limiting behaviour.
Drawing on workplace disability, help seeking, and social identity literature, this study proposes and tests a model of request withholding frequency using survey data from 279 people with hearing impairments.
Consistent with expectations, older employees withheld requests less frequently; however, there was no main effect of gender. Moreover, the strength of the relationship between age and request withholding frequency was significantly weaker when the disability was more severe and when the age of disability onset was earlier.
Similarly, disability severity influenced the strength of the relationship between gender and request withholding frequency, though the age of disability onset did not.
These findings are consistent with social identity theory, in that those individual differences and disability attributes that shape social identities also appear to affect decisions to request disability accommodation.
In practical terms, managers need to not only be supportive of disability accommodation requests but also recognize that some employees, such as young persons with disabilities, may need even more support, and support in a form that affirms or minimizes threats to other salient identities, such as their youth.
Additional implications for management research and practice are discussed.
Abstract
Prior research suggests that people with disabilities often do not request needed workplace accommodations, though relatively few studies address which factors influence the extent of such potentially self-limiting behaviour.
Drawing on workplace disability, help seeking, and social identity literature, this study proposes and tests a model of request withholding frequency using survey data from 279 people with hearing impairments.
Consistent with expectations, older employees withheld requests less frequently; however, there was no main effect of gender. Moreover, the strength of the relationship between age and request withholding frequency was significantly weaker when the disability was more severe and when the age of disability onset was earlier.
Similarly, disability severity influenced the strength of the relationship between gender and request withholding frequency, though the age of disability onset did not.
These findings are consistent with social identity theory, in that those individual differences and disability attributes that shape social identities also appear to affect decisions to request disability accommodation.
In practical terms, managers need to not only be supportive of disability accommodation requests but also recognize that some employees, such as young persons with disabilities, may need even more support, and support in a form that affirms or minimizes threats to other salient identities, such as their youth.
Additional implications for management research and practice are discussed.
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