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Using the Theory of Reasoned Action to Predict College Men’s Intentions to Seek Psychological Help

Rogers, Timothy E.

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2009, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, Counseling Psychology.
This study sought to increase current understanding of men’s help-seeking intentions using the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA; Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980). The TRA provides a comprehensive framework to simultaneously assess several beliefs that may contribute to the formation of attitudes and subjective norms that, in turn, determine a person’s intention to perform a specific behavior such as seeking psychological help. Using existing psychological measures of help-seeking variables (i.e., attitudes, subjective norms, anticipated risks and benefits of self-disclosure, treatment fears, self-disclosure willingness, social and personal stigma for seeking psychological help) and masculinity constructs (i.e., gender role conflict and conformity to traditional male norms), this study examined a fully mediated and partially mediated TRA model to predict help-seeking intentions in a sample of college men (N = 338). Results from both models revealed a less-than-adequate fit with the data, accounting for 18.1% to 26.5% of the variance in men’s help-seeking intentions. Based on these results, an alternative post-hoc TRA model was examined and found to be an excellent fit with the data, accounting for 42.4% of the variance in men’s help-seeking intentions. Overall, results from this study supported an alternative partially mediated TRA model that accounted for a large portion of variance in men’s help-seeking intentions.
David Tokar, Dr. (Advisor)
199 p.

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  • Rogers, T. E. (2009). Using the Theory of Reasoned Action to Predict College Men’s Intentions to Seek Psychological Help [Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1241652900

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Rogers, Timothy. Using the Theory of Reasoned Action to Predict College Men’s Intentions to Seek Psychological Help. 2009. University of Akron, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1241652900.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Rogers, Timothy. "Using the Theory of Reasoned Action to Predict College Men’s Intentions to Seek Psychological Help." Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1241652900

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)