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Help-seeking Motivation

Help-Seeking Motivation is a psychological construct that denotes an individual's internal drive to overcome personal or academic challenges by actively pursuing assistance, distinguished from related motivational constructs by its specific focus on the initiation and persistence of efforts to obtain external support in response to perceived deficits in knowledge, skills, or resources.

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Social-psychological factors affecting help-seeking for emotional problems

Debra Rickwood, Valerie Braithwaite · Social Science & Medicine · 1994 · 589 citations

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Vacationers and eWOM: Who Posts, and Why, Where, and What?

Fred Bronner, Robert de Hoog · Journal of Travel Research · 2010 · 518 citations · Full text

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When the Going Gets Tough, Do the Tough Ask for Help? Help Seeking and Power Motivation in Organizations

Fiona Lee · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 1997 · 464 citations

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Children's help-seeking in the classroom: The role of motivational factors and attitudes.

Richard S. Newman · Journal of Educational Psychology · 1990 · 276 citations

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Motivators for Change and Barriers to Help-Seeking in Australian Problem Gamblers

Lyn Evans, Paul Delfabbro · Journal of Gambling Studies · 2005 · 207 citations

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Authors

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    Sharon Nelson‐Le Gall

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    3 publications · 197 citations

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    Kati Mäkitalo‐Siegl

    University of Eastern Finland, Finland

    2 publications · 161 citations

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  3. RN
    Ryun Nam

    University of Minnesota, United States

    2 publications · 28 citations

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  4. ES
    Eun Soo Park

    Twin Cities Orthopedics, United States

    2 publications · 28 citations

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  5. EJ
    Elaine Jones

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    2 publications · 74 citations

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Institutions

104

  1. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    318 citations

  2. Orygen Youth Health

    Footscray, Australia

    2 h-index

    14 publications

    1.6K citations

  3. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    45 citations

  4. Kentucky Department of Education

    Frankfort, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    140 citations

  5. Temple University

    Philadelphia, United States

    2 h-index

    9 publications

    531 citations

  6. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    134 citations

  7. Hallym University

    Chuncheon, South Korea

    2 h-index

    11 publications

    145 citations

  8. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    189 citations

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  1. Learning and Instruction

    4 publications · 378 citations

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  2. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    3 publications · 303 citations

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  3. Journal of Educational Psychology

    3 publications · 401 citations

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  4. Computers in Human Behavior

    2 publications · 64 citations

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  5. Child Development

    2 publications · 74 citations

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