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ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2023

Autonomy versus support: self-reliance and help-seeking for mental health problems in young people.

Amelia Ishikawa, Debra Rickwood, Emily Bariola, Navjot Bhullar

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Article in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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Amelia IshikawaFaculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Debra RickwoodFaculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia. debra.rickwood@canberra.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4227-0231
Emily BariolaKantar Public, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Navjot BhullarDiscipline of Psychology, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1616-6094

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purposeMany young people with mental ill-health do not seek support, and developmental growth in self-reliance may be a barrier to help-seeking. Increasing autonomy is a positive developmental task for youth and a key aspect of resilience. This study examined the influence of perceived social support and resilience on the previously unexamined relationship between self-reliance and intentions to seek help from informal, professional, and self-help sources for mental health problems.

methodsAn online survey was completed by a representative Australian community sample of 5,203 young people aged 12-25 years (half female), in May-June 2020.

resultsPath analysis showed the hypothesised conceptual model did not fit the data well, but a modified model was a good fit. Higher self-reliance was associated with lower intentions to seek informal and professional help, as expected, but not with greater intentions for self-help. The relationship between self-reliance and informal help-seeking intentions was fully mediated by perceived social support, whereas the relationship between self-reliance and professional help-seeking was also direct. Perceived social support fully mediated the relationship between self-reliance and resilience. Intentions to use self-help were not influenced by variables in the study, but higher self-help intentions were associated with higher professional help-seeking intentions. Associations were consistent across age and gender groups.

conclusionThe results show the critical role of social support for combating some of the unhelpful aspects of self-reliance for mental health help-seeking in young people. Future research should explore how self-reliance can hinder or be harnessed to facilitate accessing appropriate mental health.

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Help-Seeking BehaviorMental DisordersMental Health ServicesAdolescentAustraliaFemaleHumansMental HealthPatient Acceptance of Health CareSocial SupportHelp-seekingMental health problemsPerceived social supportResilienceSelf-relianceYouth

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PMCPMC9971084

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