Stigma and Help Seeking for Mental Health Among College Students

By D. Eisenberg, Marilyn F. Downs, Ezra Golberstein, K. Zivin. Medical Care Research and Review, 2009

1,204 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. J. Hunt
2. Miles Thompson
3. K. Davis
4. V. Earnshaw
5. D. Eisenberg
6. C. Pawson
7. D. Quinn
8. Hyejin Jung

In Health

1. J. Hunt
2. V. Earnshaw
3. D. Eisenberg
4. D. Quinn

In Social Psychology

1. J. Hunt
2. V. Earnshaw
3. Miles Thompson
4. K. Davis
5. D. Eisenberg
6. C. Pawson
7. D. Quinn
8. Hyejin Jung

Citations in the corpus

• The impact of mental health literacy, stigma, and social support on attitudes toward mental health help-seeking (2017, background): “Perceived public stigma is one’s awareness about the way in which the public sustains stigma against people with mental illness (Eisenberg et al., 2009).”
• Feeling Bad on Facebook: Depression disclosures by college students on a Social Networking Site (2011, methodology): “[3] Concerns about the stigma related to mental illness are also associated with less perceived need for help and decreased treatment-seeking behavior within this population.[18] Other barriers to help seeking include lack of knowledge about available services and privacy concerns.”
• Understanding Concealable Stigmatized Identities: The Role of Identity in Psychological, Physical, and Behavioral Outcomes (2011, background): “have internalized stigma are less likely to be adherent to psychological therapy (Eisenberg, Downs, Golberstein, & Zivin, 2009; Fung, Tsang, & Chan, 2010) and medication regimens (Eisenberg et al., 2009).”
• Navigating entry into higher education: the transition to independent learning and living (2021, result): “Our data tend to further support both Stallman (2010) and Eisenberg et al. (2009) who suggest that moving away for university can be a positive experience for many students.”
• College Students: Mental Health Problems and Treatment Considerations (2014, background): “A few reasons have been proposed for the low rates of help seeking in this population including fear of personal stigma, not perceiving treatment as urgent or essential, and lack of time [88, 89].”
• Mental health problems and help-seeking behavior among college students. (2010, background): “In addition, we found that stigmatizing attitudes of students about mental illness (but not their perceptions of others’ stigma) were associated with lower help-seeking behavior [72].”