ABSTRACT

In this study we integrated insights from research on cognitive biases in depression with the reasoned action approach to predicting and changing behavior (RAA) with the goal of identifying implications for help-seeking messaging for college students with varying levels of depression. Findings from a sample of 374 U.S. college students support the ability of RAA to explain help-seeking intentions for non-depressed, mildly depressed students, and moderate to severely depressed students. More severe depression was associated with less favorable attitudes, perceived norms, perceived capacity, and intention; changes in the relative strength of attitudes, perceived norms, and perceived capacity in explaining help-seeking intentions; stronger expectations of negative outcomes of help-seeking and weaker expectations of positive outcomes; and to some extent, stronger expectations of negative outcomes for oneself than for others. These findings underscore that depressed students construe help-seeking differently than non-depressed students, and that depressed and non-depressed students need different help-seeking messages.

摘要

在这项研究中，我们将抑郁症认知偏差研究的见解与预测和改变行为 (RAA) 的合理行动方法相结合，目的是确定对不同程度抑郁症的大学生寻求帮助信息的影响。来自 374 名美国大学生样本的调查结果支持 RAA 能够解释非抑郁、轻度抑郁学生和中度至重度抑郁学生的求助意图。更严重的抑郁症与不太有利的态度、感知规范、感知能力和意图相关；在解释求助意图时态度、感知规范和感知能力的相对强度的变化；对寻求帮助的消极结果的期望更高，对积极结果的期望更弱；在某种程度上，对自己的负面结果的期望比对他人的期望更高。这些发现强调，抑郁学生对求助的理解与非抑郁学生不同，而且抑郁学生和非抑郁学生需要不同的求助信息。