The Role Of Gender On University Students’ Attitudes Toward Professional Psychological Help Seeking

The aim of the study is to investigate the influence of gender on university students' attitude towards help seeking. Participants of this study were composed of 572 Middle East Technical University students (264 female, 308 male). Participants were selected by a convenient sampling method. The data were obtained by using the scale of Attitudes toward Seeking Psychological Help - Shortened (Türküm, 2001) and a demographic information form. One-way analysis of variance and one-way analysis of covariance were used to analyze the data. The findings of the study indicated that gender has an effect on help seeking attitude after controlling the faculty and age variables. In addition, female students were found to have more positive help seeking attitude than male students.