. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 14.

Published in final edited form as: Child Adolesc Social Work J. 2009 Oct 1;26(5):447–466. doi: 10.1007/s10560-009-0174-0

Table 6.

Predicting attitudes towards mental health services (N = 70)

	Psychological openness			Help-seeking propensity			Indifference to stigma

	β	SE	t	β	SE	t	β	SE	t
Youth of color	−1.88	1.5	−1.26	−0.19	1.72	−0.11	−3.39	1.64	−2.06^*
Polypharmacy	0.77	1.2	0.63	2.84	1.41	2.01^*	0.59	1.34	0.44
Timeline (high = problems/illness is chronic)	0.22	0.11	1.94⁺	−0.04	0.13	−0.31	0.07	0.12	0.60
Consequences (high = consequences to problems/illness)	0.04	0.13	0.26	0.03	0.16	0.21	−0.09	0.15	−0.60
Personal control (high = personal control over P/I))	0.03	0.14	0.25	0.01	0.16	−0.07	0.26	0.15	1.68⁺
Treatment control (high = treatment can control P/I)	0.37	0.18	1.99⁺	0.49	0.21	2.29^*	−0.11	0.20	−0.53
Illness coherence (high = understanding of P/I)	0.21	0.13	1.69⁺	0.02	0.14	0.11	0.24	0.14	1.77⁺
Time cyclical (high = problems are cyclical)	−0.07	0.22	−0.33	0.05	0.25	0.20	−0.03	0.24	−0.11
Emotional representations (high = emotional response to P/I)	−0.06	0.13	−0.46	−0.05	0.15	−0.36	−0.43	0.14	−3.01^**
Model statistics	F = 2.45^*R² = 0.27			F = 1.37 NS R² = 0.17			F = 4.45^***R² = 0.40

⁺

p < 0.10,

p < 0.05,

^**

p < 0.01,

^***

p < 0.001