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: Received: 9 August 2024 / Approved: 23 August 2024 / Online: 23 August 2024 (17:04:01 CEST)
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Meadley, A.; Rickwood, D.; Ishikawa, A. Young Adults’ Perceptions of the Role of Trust in the Impact of Self-Reliance on Help-Seeking for Mental Health Problems. Preprints2024, 2024081756. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1756.v1
Meadley, A.; Rickwood, D.; Ishikawa, A. Young Adults’ Perceptions of the Role of Trust in the Impact of Self-Reliance on Help-Seeking for Mental Health Problems. Preprints 2024, 2024081756. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1756.v1
Meadley, A.; Rickwood, D.; Ishikawa, A. Young Adults’ Perceptions of the Role of Trust in the Impact of Self-Reliance on Help-Seeking for Mental Health Problems. Preprints2024, 2024081756. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1756.v1
APA Style
Meadley, A., Rickwood, D., & Ishikawa, A. (2024). Young Adults’ Perceptions of the Role of Trust in the Impact of Self-Reliance on Help-Seeking for Mental Health Problems. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1756.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Meadley, A., Debra Rickwood and Amelia Ishikawa. 2024 "Young Adults’ Perceptions of the Role of Trust in the Impact of Self-Reliance on Help-Seeking for Mental Health Problems" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1756.v1
Abstract
Many young people are reluctant to seek support for mental health concerns and a preference for self-reliance has been identified as a key barrier. Yet, the conceptualisation and measurement of self-reliance is not well understood. This study examines the meaning of self-reliance as it affects young people’s help-seeking, with an emphasis on the role of trust (both in self and in others). 30 Australian young people aged 18-25 years were interviewed. Reflexive thematic analysis, using both inductive and deductive approaches, was used to construct themes about the relationships between trust, self-reliance, and help-seeking for young people. Participants identified that both self-reliance and help-seeking exist on a continuum from insufficient self-reliance to extreme self-reliance and excessive help-seeking to unwillingness to seek help. Trust was a key component of self-reliance, and a balance between trust in self and trust in others is necessary for self-reliance to be adaptive and appropriate help-seeking to occur. To maintain this balance, young people felt that a level of self-awareness was necessary. A high level of trust in self is considered to increase self-reliance, whereas a high level of trust in others increases help-seeking behaviours. Understanding the role of trust in self-reliance informs developmentally appropriate ways to address self-reliance as a barrier to mental health help-seeking for young people.
Keywords
young people; self-reliance; trust; help-seeking; mental health
Subject
Social Sciences, Psychology
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