Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-6-2022
Abstract
Objective
Considering that college students experience mental health issues and college counseling centers are overwhelmed, this study identifies instructors as a potential mental health resource for students. This study utilizes the theory of planned behavior to investigate the relationship between students’ attitudes, injunctive and descriptive norms, perceived behavioral control, and their intentions to engage their instructors in mental health conversations.
Participants
Participants were 311 undergraduate students at a small, private university in Southern California.
Methods
Participants were recruited through a Communication subject pool and completed an online survey about engaging instructors in these conversations.
Results
Results of a regression analysis indicate that all theoretical constructs positively predict students’ intentions to discuss mental health with an instructor.
Conclusions
By providing insight into students’ intentions to utilize instructors as mental health resources on campus, these findings yield practical implications for better preparing universities and their faculty to engage in students’ mental health.
Recommended Citation
White, A., Ball, H., & LaBelle, S. (2022). Student intentions to engage instructors in mental health-related conversations: An application of the theory of planned behavior, Journal of American College Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2022.2060710
Copyright
Taylor & Francis
Creative Commons License
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Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2022.2060710. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.