Ernesto Carrillo

Abstract

This study aims to understand the factors that increase or decrease mental-health-seeking attitudes. Understanding this relationship may explain why certain groups of individuals use more mental health resources than other groups. If a difference exists, it may help academic institutions understand which groups of their student body are more at risk for discontinuing their education. It is hypothesized that non-scholarship students would exhibit less favorable mental-help-seeking attitudes, lower self-efficacy, and higher academic stress than scholarship students. The population group for this test were 122 college students currently pursuing a degree at Rochester University. Although no differences were found between scholarship and non-scholarship students, underlying relationships between student belief and academic achievement were found. Not surprisingly, the study found a strong correlation between cumulative GPA and mastering course belief (r ( 108) = .428, p=.01), and GPA and accomplishing course tasks successfully (r (108) = .29, p = .002).