Psychological help seeking attitudes among Malaysian College and university students

This study was conducted to examine the help-seeking attitudes of Malaysian students in order to understand their readiness to seek psychological services. A total of 2508 students from seven public tertiary education institutions participated in this study. The findings reveal that students generally do not seek helps from counselors. The mean score is 49.6 which is in the low score category. Generally 49.1% of the students are in the low scorers category, 41% in the medium scorers category and only 9.3 are in the high scores category. The mean scores in all the four factors in the scale are also low.