The Study of Taiwanese Adults' Attitudes toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help

台灣成年人對求助於心理專業的看法

劉錦萍(Chin-Ping Liou)

《全人教育學報》 2期 (2008/01) Pp. 1-34

https://doi.org/10.6272/JHE.2008.02.1

摘要

此篇論文主要在探討台灣成年人對尋求心理專業協助的看法，及人口變項對求助態度的影響。本研究採問卷調查法，發出問卷300份，回收之有效問卷258份。樣本來自台灣北中南及東部六大城市，包括男性96位及女性162位，年齡介於29－74歲之間，平均年齡46.6歲。在教育程度方面，主要是高中（33％）或大專畢業（39％）。宗教信仰方面，大多為天主教徒（38％）或佛教徒（32％）。本研究蒐集資料使用之問卷包括求助態度量表和個人資料調查表。以描述性統計對蒐集之有序數據進行Mann-Whitney及Kruskall-Wallis變異數分析。研究結果發現，台灣成年人對求助於心理專業普遍抱持正向積極的態度。人口變項（性別、年齡、教育程度、宗教）對台灣成年人求助於心理專業的看法並無顯著影響。建議政府相關單位廣為民眾提供高品質、一般民眾負擔得起的心理專業資源，幫助民眾將對心理專業的正向態度化為實際行動；諮商輔導界則應多透過媒體及其它傳播媒介，進行心理健康教育宣導，讓民眾明白何時需要及如何尋求心理專業協助。未來研究，應針對影響民眾尋求心理專業的因素進行深度探討，並將社會及心理師因素考慮在內。

關鍵字

求助態度 ； 台灣成年人 ； 心理專業協助 ； 人口變項

並列摘要

The purpose of this study was to explore Taiwanese adults' professional psychological help seeking attitude and to discover whether participants' help seeking attitudes vary according to selected demographic variables. The sample population consisted of 258 respondents (162 females and 96 males, mean age = 46.60, SD = 7.92). The researcher utilized a published measure: the Attitude Toward Professional Psychological Help Scale a self-developed Demographic Information Form to assess participants' help seeking attitudes and to gather demographic data. A descriptive statistics and tests for difference for ordinal data: Mann-Whitney Test and Kruskal-Wallis one-way Analysis of Variance were employed for data analysis. The study revealed that participants endorsed a favorable professional help seeking attitude (M = 81.28, SD = 9.24). It also found that none of the four demographic variables made a significant difference in help seeking attitudes (α = .05, 2-tailed). The results implied that holding a positive attitude toward professional help seeking, Taiwanese adults should be helped to actually reach out for professional help in their need by making quality mental health services available and affordable to them. Further researches are recommended to investigate in depth variables affecting Taiwanese professional psychological help seeking including social and therapist factors.

並列關鍵字

help seeking ； Taiwanese adults ； professional psychological help ； demographic data