An Exploratory Study of Adolescent's Help-Seeking Sources

The purpose of this study is to explore the help seeking sources of adolescents. The corelational survey method was employed in this study. The participants of the study consist of 252 high-school students, 132(%52,4) female, 120(%47,6) male. In the study, General Help-Seeking Questionnaire were used as data collection tool and the scale was checked in terms of its Turkish psychometric properties and factor structure of the scale. Chi-square test and descriptive statistics are were made for data analysis of the research. As a consequence, it was determined that the proportions of adolescents in receiving help from informal sources are much higher from professional sources. In addition, there is a significant relationship between the sources to which the adolescents refer for psychological help and gender. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.