Asian-American students' severity of problems and willingness to seek help from university counseling centers: Role of previous counseling experience, gender, and ethnicity.

Extended previous work conducted to understand the problem concerns and help-seeking likelihood of Asian-American college students. A sample of 596 undergraduate and graduate Asian-American students returned a survey questionnaire (response rate 53.8%). Results indicated that previous counseling experience was related to higher ratings for substance abuse concerns and willingness to seek help from a university counseling center to address academic, interpersonal, and substance abuse concerns. Asian-American women indicated higher severity ratings for substance abuse issues than did Asian-American men. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)