How Do Attitudes toward Mental Health Treatment Vary by Age, Gender, and Ethnicity/Race in Young Adults?

Autor/inn/en	Gonzalez, Jodi M.; Alegria, Margarita; Prihoda, Thomas J.
Titel	How Do Attitudes toward Mental Health Treatment Vary by Age, Gender, and Ethnicity/Race in Young Adults?
Quelle	In: Journal of Community Psychology, 33 (2005) 5, S.611-629 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-4392
DOI	10.1002/jcop.20071
Schlagwörter	Race; Negative Attitudes; Mental Health; Young Adults; Gender Differences; Minority Groups; Males; Health Services; Help Seeking; Older Adults; Comparative Analysis; Age Differences; Hispanic Americans; African Americans; Whites; Ethnic Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rasse; Abstammung; Negative Fixierung; Psychohygiene; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ethnische Minderheit; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Älterer Erwachsener; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Afroamerikaner; White; Weißer; Ethnie
Abstract	This article investigates attitudes toward seeking mental health treatment in a national epidemiological sample. Young adults reported the most negative attitudes, as compared to older adults. Males reported more negative attitudes, as compared to females, a consistent finding in young adults. The gender difference was not consistent in Latinos and African Americans. Although African Americans reported more positive attitudes than Anglos, this effect was not observed in young adults. Latinos reported similar attitudes toward mental health treatment, as compared to Anglos, a consistent finding in young adults. Results show that attitudes toward mental health treatment in young adult males are the most negative of all groups. Latinos and African Americans do not necessarily demonstrate more negative attitudes toward mental health treatment than Anglos. Within-group differences in ethnic/racial minority groups may not be similar to differences seen in Anglo populations. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10