Adolescents Attitude Towards Seeking Counseling And Its Relation With Self-concealment Self-esteem And Gender

The objectives of this study were to explorer adolescents' attitude toward seekingrncounseling, and to examine its relation with self-concealment, self-esteem and gender.rnThe data gathered through three Likert-type scales(atlitude toward seeking counseling,rnself-esteem and self-concealment scales) ji-om a total of 395 (J 35 females and 260 males)rnhigh school adolescent students attending grades 9 to J 2 in Debre Markos town, whornwere selected via proportional stratified random sampling, were analyzed using mean,rnstandard deviation, bivariate correlation, t-test and multiple regression. The mean andrnone sample t-test revealed that adolescents had negative counseling seeking attitude.rnCounseling seeking attitude was related negatively and significantly with both selfconcealmentrnand self-esteem. Gender also predicted counseling seeking attitude, beingrnfemales associated with positive attitude. Sel/concealment, sel/esteem and gender takenrntogether significantly predicted attitude towards seeking counseling Self-concealmentrnwas found to be the best predictor among the variables entered in the equation followedrnby gender. On the basis of these results, discussion and conclusion were made. Finally,rnsome recommendations are forwarded for possible intervention and jiJture research.

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