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Self‐Concealment and Willingness to Seek Counseling for Psychological, Academic, and Career Issues
Author(s) -
Vogel David L.,
Armstrong Patrick Ian
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2010.tb00038.x
Subject(s) - variance (accounting) , psychology , psychological distress , structural equation modeling , social psychology , sample (material) , self acceptance , distress , clinical psychology , mental health , psychotherapist , mathematics , accounting , statistics , chemistry , chromatography , business
Cramer's (1999) model of self‐concealment and willingness to seek counseling was extended to examine the role of positive and negative social experiences in a sample of 235 college students reporting a psychological, academic, or career issue. Structural equation modeling indicated that self‐concealment predicted willingness through the mediators of negative social experiences and psychological distress. Forty‐eight percent of the variance in psychological distress and 6% of the variance in willingness were accounted for in the model.