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Social anxiety and attitudes toward counselling in University students

University of British Columbia

Previous research suggests that the self-presentational concerns often voiced by socially anxious individuals may inhibit psychological help-seeking. The present study examined whether social anxiety is associated with unfavourable attitudes toward seeking counselling, as well as with specific helper-directed concerns and helper preferences. University students who scored low or high on a self-report measure of social anxiety were compared on several self-report measures of help-seeking developed specifically for this investigation. The results showed that socially anxious students had more negative attitudes toward seeking counselling than students who were not socially anxious. Socially anxious students were also less comfortable with the prospect of disclosing personal information to a counsellor, and were more apprehensive about the possibility of being viewed unfavourably by a counsellor, than their less anxious peers. Implications for counselling and directions for future research are discussed.

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2009-02-03

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http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4139

Counselling Psychology

University of British Columbia

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