A Study on Emotion and Mental Health Help Seeking Behavior among Adolescents

Abstract

Adolescence is a period of immense growth and changes in everyone. Every adolescent develops in various domains including emotions. During this time the teenagers go through a lot of emotions and increasingly become aware of them. Family, siblings, and friends affect the maturity of positive as well as negative emotions which are developed during this period. The purpose was to study emotion and mental health help seeking behavior among adolescents. The study was conducted on 60 adolescents between the age of 13- 17 years. The study revealed positive and negative emotions of adolescents are negatively correlated but they do not impact their mental health help seeking behaviors. Studies reveal that most of them are hesitant to go beyond their close-knit groups to ask for help.