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Factors affecting attitude towards seeking professional help for mental illness: a UK Arab perspective
- Authors:
- HAMID Aseel, FURNHAM Adrian
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Religion and Culture, 16(7), 2013, pp.741-758.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study examined various factors affecting attitude towards seeking professional psychological help (ATSPPH) in Arabs living in the UK: causal beliefs, shame-focused attitudes, confidentiality concerns, ethnic identity and demographic variables. Participants completed an online questionnaire and results indicated that Arabs showed significantly less positive ATSPPH and had stronger causal beliefs in supernatural and non-Western physiology than British Caucasians. Confidentiality concerns, but not shame-focused attitudes were significant predictors of ATSPPH; confidentiality concerns were more significant for Arabs than for British Caucasians. Implications are drawn from the results. (Publisher abstract)
Mental health literacy among university students
- Authors:
- FURNHAM Adrian, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Public Mental Health, 10(4), 2011, pp.198-210.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper investigated the mental health literacy of 400 university students from the UK. Participants indicated their knowledge of over 90 psychiatric illnesses, and rated disorders on six questions concerning whether they had heard of the disorder knew, anybody with it, could define or describe it, knew what causes it, whether those with it can be cured, and whether it is common. Findings revealed that, overall, participants had heard of just over one-third of the various illnesses. Those who rated the conditions as more common deemed them to have more known causes and to be more curable. Emotionally intelligent, open-to-experience females who had studied relevant academic subjects claimed to be better informed. The participant's age and personality, as well as whether they had studied clinical psychology, were related to their awareness of psychiatric illnesses.