Help-seeking beliefs about others’ behavior, which is one type of help-seeking belief, are incorporated into certain medical/health/social scientific theories used to studying health services treatment access. When studying the behavior of seeking help from a mental health professional, “beliefs about others’ behavior” is shorthand for “beliefs about others’ behavior related to seeking help from a mental health professional.”
Like other mental health help-seeking belief measures, measures of mental health help-seeking beliefs of others’ behavior are uncommon. We have been unable to find a measure of mental health help-seeking experiential beliefs in the published literature.
Our research team published a paper (Hammer et al., 2024) that developed and documented psychometric evidence of validity for a battery of mental health help seeking measures, for use with a specific group of humans (i.e., undergraduate engineering students studying in the United States). A copy of the mental health help-seeking beliefs about others’ behavior measure from that battery can be found in the supplemental material associated with that 2024 article.
Visit the beliefs measures webpage to learn more about the population-specific nature of beliefs measures and what that means for professionals wishing to use such measures in their work.