title: Predicting attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help among Alaska Natives.
abstract: This study sought to examine the role of current/previous treatment experience, stigma (social and self), and cultural identification (Caucasian and Alaska Native [AN]) in predicting attitudes toward psychological help seeking for ANs. Results indicated that these variables together explained roughly 56% of variance in attitudes. In particular, while self-stigma and identification with the Caucasian culture predicted a unique amount of variance in help-seeking attitudes, treatment use and identification with AN culture did not. The results of this study indicate that efforts to address the experience of self-stigma may prove most useful to improving help-seeking attitudes in ANs.
authors.forename: Brittany
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Freitas-Murrell
authors.forename: Joshua K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Swift
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000072957:Alaska Natives / Q000208:ethnology*; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000208:ethnology*; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008875:Middle Aged; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology*; D057545:Social Stigma; D055815:Young Adult