After publication of the article [1], it has been brought to our attention that the methodology outlined in the original article was not able to be fully carried out. The article planned a two armed randomized control trial. However, due to a lower response than expected and one housing complex dropping out from the study, the method was changed to pre- and post-intervention with no control gro...

Background: Mental illness-related stigma represents a barrier to seeking and receiving appropriate mental health care. literacy (MHL) can improve knowledge, decrease stigmatizing attitudes, enhance help-seeking behavior. Starting from 2022, education is due be introduced in high schools Japan. For this current situation, we conducted parallel group, randomized controlled trial examine the effe...

International behavioral research requires instruments that are not culturally-biased to assess sensation seeking. In this study we described a culturally adapted version of the Brief Sensation Seeking Scale for Chinese (BSSS-C) and its psychometric characteristics. The adapted scale was assessed using an adult sample (n=238) with diverse educational and residential backgrounds. The BSSS-C (Cro...

This study examined the mediating roles of perceived social support and psychological distress on the relationship between adult attachment and help-seeking intentions. Participants were 355 college students at a large Midwestern university. The structural equation model results indicated that attachment anxiety in individuals was positively related to acknowledging distress and to seeking help...

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s significant impact on dining-out industry, this study examined factors influencing consumers’ behavior changes using a unified theoretical framework based theory of planned (TPB) and select components risk information seeking processing (RISP) model. A quantitative research method was employed, analyzing 536 valid survey responses collected in South Korea early 2021...

This 3-wave longitudinal study aimed to extend current understanding of the predictors and outcomes of employee proactivity (involving information seeking, feedback seeking, relationship building, and positive framing) in the socialization process. Two personality variables, extraversion and openness to experience, were associated with higher levels of proactive socialization behavior. Of the p...

OBJECTIVE The recognition of mental illness without anticipating stigma might encourage adolescents' help-seeking behavior. We aimed to identify the relationship between mental illness identification and adolescents' intention to seek help if faced with mental illness. METHOD We examined the relationships between help-seeking intentions and recognition of mental illness (RMI) without correctl...