TY - JOUR
T1 - The personal service gap
T2 - Factors affecting adolescents' willingness to seek help
AU - Raviv, Amiram
AU - Raviv, Alona
AU - Vago-Gefen, Idit
AU - Fink, Abby Schachter
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - The study explores adolescents' attitudes toward seeking help for emotional problems. The personal service gap is examined by asking adolescents about their willingness to refer themselves and others to formal (psychologists) and informal (friends) help sources, using a within-subjects design. The study included 662 Israeli adolescents in the 10th and 12th grades. The results indicate that adolescents refer peers more than themselves to a psychologist and to a friend. They are also more willing to refer themselves and peers to a friend rather than to a psychologist. Barriers to seeking psychological help are explored and significant correlations between perceptions of psychological benefit, problem severity and barriers to help seeking are described. Recommendations for increasing adolescents' awareness and use of help sources are suggested.
AB - The study explores adolescents' attitudes toward seeking help for emotional problems. The personal service gap is examined by asking adolescents about their willingness to refer themselves and others to formal (psychologists) and informal (friends) help sources, using a within-subjects design. The study included 662 Israeli adolescents in the 10th and 12th grades. The results indicate that adolescents refer peers more than themselves to a psychologist and to a friend. They are also more willing to refer themselves and peers to a friend rather than to a psychologist. Barriers to seeking psychological help are explored and significant correlations between perceptions of psychological benefit, problem severity and barriers to help seeking are described. Recommendations for increasing adolescents' awareness and use of help sources are suggested.
KW - Adolescent help-seeking behavior
KW - Adolescents' attitudes toward seeking help
KW - Barriers to help-seeking among adolescents
KW - Gender differences in adolescent help-seeking behavior
KW - Informal and formal help sources
KW - Self-coping
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67349213902&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2008.07.004
DO - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2008.07.004
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AN - SCOPUS:67349213902
SN - 0140-1971
VL - 32
SP - 483
EP - 499
JO - Journal of Adolescence
JF - Journal of Adolescence
IS - 3
ER -