Abstract:
This present study aimed to examine the relationships among stress, stigma, attitudes toward psychological help seeking, and midlife crisis in working age persons. Participants were 384 working age persons with age range from 35 to 59 years old and living in Bangkok metropolis and the adjacent areas. Their mean age was 42.72 (SD=5.27) (years old). Instruments were (1) Perceived Stress Scale (2) Stigma Scale for Receiving Psychological Help (3) Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help (4) Self-Stigma of Seeking Help Scaleของ Vogel (5) Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale ATSPPHS-Short form (6) Chinese midlife crisis scale C-MCS . Pearsons product-moment correlation and multiple regressions were used to analyses the data. Findings reveal: Stress, social stigma, personal stigma and self-stigma are significantly and positively correlated with midlife crisis in working age persons (r = .58, r = .23, r = .15, r = .29, p <.01 respectively). Attitudes toward psychological help seeking is significantly and negatively correlated with midlife crisis in working age persons (r =.34, p<.01). Stress, Stigma, and attitudes toward psychological help seeking significantly predict midlife crisis in working age persons and account for 43 percent of the total of variance of midlife crisis (R²= .43, p <.05) The most significant predictors of the midlife crisis is stress (β = .54 , p <.05) followed by social stigma (β = .15 , p <.05), self-stigma (β = .08 , p <.05), personal stigma (β = -.06 , p <.05 ) and attitudes toward psychological help seeking (β = -.01 , p <.05) respectively.