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Record W4414403581 · doi:10.1007/s00127-025-02990-5

How does family face relate to intention to seek therapist-guided and digital self-guided psychological interventions? mediating effects of interdependent stigma and help-seeking attitudes

2025· article· en· W4414403581 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ben C. L. Yu, Floria H. N. Chio, Rebecca Y. M. Cheung, Kriti Kakani, Winnie W. S. Mak

Bibliographic record

VenueSocial Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicDigital Mental Health Interventions
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInterdependenceIntervention (counseling)Face (sociological concept)Stigma (botany)Face-to-faceAttributionPsychological distressPsychological control

Abstract

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PURPOSE: The present study aimed to investigate the association between family face concern and help-seeking intention for therapist-guided and digital self-guided psychological interventions in four cultures, with possible mediation of interdependent stigma of help-seeking and attitudes towards seeking help. METHODS: Using online questionnaires, six-hundred and forty-five responses (Mean age = 21.25, SD = 4.65; 70% women) were collected from college students in four regions, including Canada (n = 172), United Kingdom (n = 158), India (n = 160), and Hong Kong (n = 155). Levels of family face concern (adapted from the Face Concern Scale), interdependent stigma of help-seeking (Interdependent Stigma of Seeking Help Scale), attitudes towards therapist-guided and digital self-guided psychological intervention (adapted Face-to-Face Counselling Attitude Scale), intention to seek these interventions (items adapted to measure intention to seek help), and depressive symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire-9) were assessed. RESULTS: Using R (version 4.4.1) to conduct the path analysis, results showed that after controlling for depressive symptoms, family face concern was negatively associated with the intention to seek therapist-guided psychological intervention through the perception of higher social stigma on family members and negative attitudes towards the intervention. However, such a mediating effect was not significant for the intention to seek digital self-guided psychological intervention. CONCLUSIONS: The present study highlighted the potential negative influence of family face concern on one's intention to seek psychological help. It also highlighted that digital self-guided psychological intervention may be less subject to the influence of family face concern and stigma.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.013
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.015

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.013
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.058
GPT teacher head0.422
Teacher spread0.364 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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