title: How personality, coping styles, and perceived closeness influence help-seeking attitudes in suicide-bereaved adults.
abstract: This study examined the impact of personality, coping, and perceived closeness on help-seeking attitudes in suicide bereaved adults. Participants (n = 418; mean age = 49.50; 90% women, 89.7% Caucasian) completed measures of personality (neuroticism, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness), coping, and attitudes toward seeking mental health services. Regression analyses revealed neuroticism as the strongest predictor of help-seeking attitudes. Relatively neurotic adult women bereaved by suicide may be at-risk for developing unhealthy coping styles, low stigma indifference, and more negative help-seeking attitudes.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Educational Psychology , Ball State University , Muncie , Indiana , USA.
authors.forename: Christopher W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Drapeau
authors.affiliation: b College of Social Work , University of Kentucky , Lexington , Kentucky , USA.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cerel
authors.affiliation: c Department of Psychology , Eastern Kentucky University , Richmond , Kentucky , USA.
authors.forename: Melinda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moore
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001601:Bereavement; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008875:Middle Aged; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D057545:Social Stigma; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*