Social Characteristics and Social Interaction in the Utilization of a Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic

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The present study explores socio-cultural and social-psychological factors associated with the voluntary utilization of a psychiatric outpatient clinic among students on a large university campus. Students who sought psychiatric care as compared to those who did not were: more likely to come from groups who were less integrated into traditional social institutions in terms of role expectations; more likely to belong to or identify with other students who were more cosmopolitan in value-orientation and less integrated into the general collegiate milieu; more likely to have friends with social-emotional problems and were more likely to discuss such problems with greater frequency.

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