ArticleThe Psychiatric quarterly2025
Mental Health Help-Seeking Among Young Internal Migrants in China: Shame as a Double-Edged Sword.
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- Help-Seeking Behavior of Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences in Rural China.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Shame over tooth loss: between psychological suffering and structural inequality in Chilean oral health.Salud colectiva · 2026Article
- Perceived discrimination and academic procrastination among college students with physical disabilities: the mediating role of feelings of shame and self-handicapping.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Cultural participation rights as a proposed pathway for internal migrant mental health: an institutional analysis from China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The imperative for culturally specific suicide prevention models beyond the Western gaze.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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Abstract
Young migrants in mainland China are vulnerable to mental health issues and are reluctant to seek help from professional sources. Shame is considered an important culture-specific emotion affecting professional help-seeking. The current study aimed to investigate the moderating role of shame in the association between psychological stress and help-seeking in young internal migrants in China. 415 internal migrants (mean age = 29.20; SD = 4.81) were recruited to participate in the survey study with oversampling of those who sought help before. Multiple linear regression and Zero-inflated Poisson regression models were used to examine the moderating effects of shame on the stress-intention and stress-behavior relations, respectively. Among the 65.0% of participants with high psychological stress, 62.6% of them never sought professional help for their mental health issues. The results demonstrate that shame significantly reduced the positive association between psychological stress and professional help-seeking behavior. Conversely, shame also played a protective role, mitigating the negative association between psychological stress and professional help-seeking intention. The findings underline the importance of addressing shame-related issue prior to therapy and developing promotion strategies to improve young migrants' mental health.
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