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Colonial Mentality and Mental Health Help‐Seeking of Filipino Americans
Author(s) -
Tuazon Victor E.,
Gonzalez Edith,
Gutierrez Daniel,
Nelson Lotes
Publication year - 2019
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/jcad.12284
Subject(s) - colonialism , ethnic group , acculturation , oppression , mental health , identity (music) , psychology , distress , social support , gender studies , social psychology , sociology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , political science , anthropology , law , physics , politics , acoustics
Filipino Americans present with very low rates of mental health help‐seeking. Because of the colonial history between the Philippines and the United States, the authors examined how colonial mentality and internalized oppression, along with ethnic identity, acculturation, and social support, were related to mental health help‐seeking attitudes of Filipino Americans ( N = 410). Furthermore, the authors investigated how colonial mentality affects the ethnic identity of Filipino Americans. Major findings included that colonial mentality was negatively related to ethnic identity development and social support, and higher levels of colonial mentality significantly predicted negative mental health help‐seeking attitudes above and beyond ethnic identity, acculturation, social support, and demographic variables. Implications for the counseling profession are considered.