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KMID : 1025820230310020189
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Family and Family Therapy
2023 Volume.31 No. 2 p.189 ~ p.210
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The Effect of Self-Concealment and Self-Stigma on Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Help in Middle-Aged Men
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Yoon Jin-Mook
Park Jeong-Yun
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study is to explore an intervention basis to enhance the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Help of middle-aged men by confirming the effect of self-concealment and self-stigma on Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Helps of middle-aged men.
Methods: Data were collected using self-reporting surveys and analyzed applying SPSS 23.0.
Results: The effect of middle-aged men's self-concealment on Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Help was mid-to-high, while the effect of self-stigma was moderate. Results of tests of correlation between variables showed a negative correlation between Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Help and the competence area, the relationship area, concealment tendency, fear of secret leakage, and ownership of secrets. As a result of examining the relative influence on the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Help, it had a significant effect in the order of competence area, relationship area, and concealment tendency.
Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that it is necessary to lower self-concealment and self-stigma in order to promote Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Helps of middle-aged men; wherein there is a need for social and institutional intervention and program development accordingly.
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KEYWORD
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middle-aged men, Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Help, self-concealment, self-stigma
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