Date of Publication

1-2021

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Psychology Major in Clinical Psychology

Subject Categories

Clinical Psychology | Psychology

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Psychology

Thesis Advisor

Allan Benedict I. Bernardo

Defense Panel Chair

Maria Guadalupe C. Salanga

Defense Panel Member

Maria Caridad H. Tarroja
Niño Jose C. Mateo

Abstract/Summary

Although help-seeking serves as a form of adaptive coping that enables better well-being outcomes, research points towards a general reluctance to seek help for mental health problems. Burgeoning research exploring help-seeking facilitators looked into the potential role of positive psychology, particularly on the character strength of hope. In this thesis, the locus-of-hope model was used to understand how external dimensions of hope relate to formal and informal help-seeking intentions of Filipinos during the COVID-19 pandemic. Self-stigma was also added to the model and was presumed to buffer the relationship between the hope dimensions and formal and informal help-seeking. Help-seeking history and personality traits were included as covariates. Results from a hierarchical regression analysis showed that the external locus-of-hope dimensions were associated with informal help-seeking, and that external-family locus-of-hope was associated with formal help-seeking. Self-stigma negatively predicted both formal and informal help-seeking. The present study provides an important insight that while self-stigma remains to inhibit individuals’ help-seeking intentions, external locus-of-hope dimensions serve as facilitators that can enable people to seek help, especially during adverse times such as a pandemic. Addressing self-stigma and increasing the Filipinos’ external locus-of-hope may provide a unique avenue for increasing help-seeking intentions, and by extension, lead to improved psychological well-being.

Keywords: help-seeking, hope, locus-of-hope, self-stigma, positive psychology

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Electronic

Physical Description

93 leaves

Keywords

Help-seeking behavior; Hope; Stigma (Social psychology); Positive psychology; Mental health

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Embargo Period

5-20-2021

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