Mental health literacy (MHL) has utility for promoting peer‐to‐peer referrals to mental health support services among university students. However, there is a gap in the extant literature about the potential usefulness of MHL for supporting the mental health of community college students, a population facing a number of mental health conditions. The authors examined the construct validity and the utility of 3 dimensions of MHL as predictors of peer‐to‐peer referrals to the counseling center among community college students. Results of confirmatory factor analyses supported the dimensionality of the instrumentation and a hierarchical logistic regression analysis revealed that MHL was a significant positive predictor of peer‐to‐peer referrals to the counseling center. Implications for counseling practice and future research are discussed.

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社区大学生的心理健康素养和对等咨询推荐

心理健康素养（MHL）可用于在大学生中促进点对点推荐心理健康支持服务。但是，在现有文献中，关于MHL在支持社区大学生心理健康方面的潜在作用方面存在差距，社区大学生面临着许多心理健康问题。作者检验了MHL的三个维度在社区大学生中对咨询中心点对点推荐的结构效度和效用。验证性因素分析的结果支持了仪器的尺寸，并且分层逻辑回归分析表明，MHL是对等咨询中心的推荐。讨论了对咨询实践和未来研究的影响。