Self-Stigma, Social Stigma, and Attitudes Toward Seeking Psychological Help Among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
Muhammet Sancaktar, Bahadır Demir, Gülçin Elboğa, Feridun Bülbül, Abdurrahman Altındağ · 2026
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Muhammet Sancaktar and co-authors measure stigma and attitudes toward seeking psychological help among Turkish students, in a 2026 study. Stigma keeps many students from psychological care, and self-judgment and public judgment may work in distinct ways. A large public university in Gaziantep supplied the sample.
Over four hundred fifty undergraduates filled out three checked scales. Both kinds of stigma moved against help-seeking attitudes, and the two moved with each other. Age, sex, and like traits alone explained about a tenth of the spread in attitudes, and the stigma scores then made the model far stronger. Only self-stigma stood as an independent predictor, next to gender. Women held more positive attitudes, as did students with a family history of psychiatric illness or a past diagnosis. Men reported higher social stigma than women, older students reported lower, and campus programs should aim at self-stigma first.
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| CREATOR | Muhammet Sancaktar, Bahadır Demir, Gülçin Elboğa, Feridun Bülbül, Abdurrahman Altındağ |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |