Üniversite öğrencilerinin psikolojik yardım alma niyetlerini etkileyen gerçekleştirilmektedir. Araştırmalar sonucunda, psikolojik yardım alma niyetinde çeşitli bireysel faktörlerin etkili olduğu, yaşam doyumu ve psikolojik yardım almaya ilişkin tutumun bireysel faktörler arasında değerlendirildiği görülmektedir. Bunun yanı sıra çevresel faktörlerin de önemli olduğu, psikolojik yardım alma niyetiyle ilişkili çevresel faktörlerden birinin algılanan sosyal destek olduğu anlaşılmaktadır. Literatürde yer alan çalışmalar incelendiğinde, algılanan sosyal desteğin, yaşam doyumu ve psikolojik yardım almaya ilişkin tutum aracılığıyla psikolojik yardım alma niyetiyle ilişkilendirilebileceği düşünülmüştür. Bu doğrultuda araştırmanın amacı, üniversite öğrencileri arasında algılanan sosyal destek, yaşam doyumu, psikolojik yardım almaya ilişkin tutum ve psikolojik yardım alma niyeti arasındaki ilişkileri incelemektir. Araştırmaya gönüllü 1072 (664 kadın, 406 erkek, 2 kişi cinsiyet rapor etmemiş) üniversite öğrencisi katılmıştır. Katılımcıların yaşları 18 ile 28 arasında değişmektedir. Algılanan Çok Boyutlu Sosyal Destek Ölçeği, Yaşam Doyumu Ölçeği, Psikolojik Yardım Almaya İlişkin Tutum Ölçeği-Revize Form ve Yetişkinler için Psikolojik Yardım Alma Niyeti Envanteri veri toplama araçları olarak kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonuçları, algılanan sosyal desteğin, yaşam doyumu ve psikolojik yardım almaya ilişkin tutum aracılığıyla psikolojik yardım alma niyetini yordadığını göstermiştir. Ayrıca, algılanan sosyal desteğin psikolojik yardım alma niyetiyle doğrudan ilişkisinin anlamlı olmadığı belirlenmiştir. Bunun yanında araştırma sonuçları, tam aracılı yapısal modelin toplam varyansın % 20'sini açıkladığını ortaya koymuştur. Araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre algılanan sosyal desteği yüksek olan kişilerin yaşam doyumu yüksek, psikolojik yardım almaya ilişkin tutumu olumlu ve sonuç olarak, psikolojik yardım alma niyeti yüksektir

A large number of studies have been conducted to determine the factors that affect intention to seek psychological help among university students. The results of these studies have shown that various individual factors influence intention to seek psychological help. Life satisfaction and attitudes toward psychological help-seeking are considered as individual factors in the intention to seek psychological help. Environmental factors are also found to be crucial in psychological help-seeking intention and, perceived social support has been regarded as one of those factors. The literature documents that one of the most consistent finding regarding the help-seeking decision is that help seeking intention is predicted by attitudes toward psychological helpseeking. In other words, attitudes toward psychological help-seeking affects the intention to seek help (Dearing, Maddux, & Tangney, 2005; Erkan, Özbay, Cihangir-Çankaya, & Terzi, 2012a; Topkaya, 2011a; Vogel et al., 2007). The attitudes toward psychological help-seeking are also found to be predicted by various demographic variables (i.e., gender, age) and psychological factors (i.e., perceived social support, psychological distress, self-concealment, and self-disclosure (Nam et al., 2013). There are some research studies including separately perceived social support, life satisfaction, attitudes toward psychological helpseeking, and intentions to seek psychological help, and the relationships among those variables in the abroad and Turkey (i.e, Erkan et al., 2012a; Koydemir-Özden, 2010; Vogel & Wester, 2003; Vogel & Wei, 2005; Vogel, Wester, Wei, & Boysen, 2005). However, there are limited research about the relations between life satisfaction and psychological help-seeking intention. Also, the researchers did not come across with any research that includes study variables together. On the other hand, the results of several research studies reveal that the variables that may affect the intention to seek psychological help and their effects can vary between cultures (Kim & Omizo, 2003; Tata & Leong, 1994). It is still are not known how perceived social support, which is one of the variables that may vary between cultures, is related to psychological help seeking through the life satisfaction, and attitudes toward psychological help- seeking in our culture. Therefore, this study can improve our understanding regarding the role of perceived social support on intentions to seek psychological help. As outlined in the aforementioned studies, it is thought that perceived social support can be related to intention to seek psychological help through the life satisfaction, and attitudes toward psychological help- seeking. In this respect, the aim of the current study was to examine the relationships among perceived social support, life satisfaction, attitudes toward psychological help- seeking and intention to seek psychological help Algılanan Sosyal Destek, Yaşam Doyumu, Psikolojik Yardım Almaya İlişkin… 981 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 10/2 Winter 2015 utilizing structural equation modeling. Moreover, the mediating roles of life satisfaction, and attitudes toward psychological help- seeking has been investigated between perceived social support, and intention to seek psychological help. Method Participants of the study were 1072 (664 women, 406 men, 2 unspecified) volunteer undergraduate students. Their age ranged between 18 and 28 with a mean age of 21.03 (SS = 2.27). Of them 216 were freshmen, 342 were sophomore, 252 were junior, and 216 were senior. The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, Satisfaction with Life Scale, Attitudes towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale-Revised Form, Intentions to Seek Counselling Inventory for adults, and a Demographic Information Form developed by the researchers were used to collect data. Results Prior to testing the proposed model, confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to examine the measurement model of perceived social support, life satisfaction, attitude towards help seeking and intention to help-seeking. In order to evaluate how well the data fitted the measurement model some model-fit statistics such as chi-square (? 2 ), the ratio of chi-square to its degrees of freedom (? 2 / df), the adjusted goodness of fit index (AGFI), the comparative fit index (CFI), the rootmean-square error of approximation (RMSEA), and standardized root mean square residual (SRMR) were used. Goodness of fit indices of the measurement model indicated that the chi-square value (20.80) did not significant (p = .235). The ratio of chi-square to its degrees of freedom (? 2 / df = 1.22) 3 or smaller than 3 indicate perfect fit and the ratio which is smaller than 5 indicate acceptable model fit (Kline, 2005). The other used goodness of fit indices (AGFI = .99, CFI = .99, RMSEA = .014, SRMR = .014) suggested good model fit (Hu & Bentler, 1999; Kline, 2005). After testing the measurement model, correlation coefficients, means, and standard deviations of the variables were calculated (Table 1). In the next step, a partly mediated model was tested included both direct and indirect relationships between perceived social support, intention to help seeking, life satisfaction and attitudes towards psychological help seeking (Figure 1). While constructing structural equation model, item parceling procedure was used (Bandalos & Finney, 2001). Firstly, p value (p = .000) of the chi-square (? 2 ) was seen significant in the proposed model. When the proposed model was evaluated according to the ratio of chi-square to its degrees of freedom it was found that the obtained value (? 2/ df = 3.12) close to the recommended value of 3 (Kline, 2005). In addition, other goodness of fit statistics were computed (AGFI = .97, CFI = .99, RMSEA = .044, SRMR = .064) and the results revealed that the model was a good fit of the data. Also, all paths in the proposed model were examined and the path between perceived social support and intention to seek help was seen nonsignificant (r = .01, p = .769). Thus, the path between perceived social support and intention to seek help was excluded from the proposed model and the model was tested 982 Nursel TOPKAYA – Ayşenur BÜYÜKGÖZE KAVAS Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 10/2 Winter 2015 as fully mediated model. Then, goodness of fit statistics were reevaluated (? 2/ df = 2.88, AGFI = .97, CFI = .99, RMSEA = .043, SRMR = .064) which indicated the model was a good fit to the data. An examination of the path coefficients among the variables of the model indicated that all paths were significant (Figure 2). Bootstrapping (set at 1000) and bias corrected bootstrap (BC) 95% confidence intervals which is being used with increasing frequency and recommends by many researcher (Preacher & Hayes, 2008) were requested to evaluate the significance level of the indirect paths in the model. Accordingly, an examination of the direct and indirect paths in the model revealed that the direct relationship between perceived social support and life satisfaction (β = .43, p < .01), indirect relationships among attitudes towards help seeking (β = .11, p < .001) and intention to seek help (β = .05, p < .001); the direct relationship between life satisfaction and attitudes towards psychological help (β = .23, p < .001) and indirect relation with intention to seek help (β = .11, p < .001) were found significant (Table 2). Finally, considering the all direct and indirect paths in the model it is can be stated that the model was a good fit to the data and the model was fully mediated by life satisfaction and attitudes towards psychological help. Overall, the final model accounted for 20% of the variance intention to seek help among university students. Discussion and Conclusion The results of the research demonstrated that there were positive relationship between perceived social support and life satisfaction, life satisfaction and attitudes toward psychological help-seeking, and finally attitudes toward psychological help-seeking and intention to seek psychological help. These results are parallel to previous research results (Malinauskas, 2010; Bozoğlan, 2014). The results of the study also demonstrated that the relationship between perceived social support and intentions to seek psychological help was mediated by life satisfaction and attitudes toward seeking psychological help among university students. Moreover, it was found that perceived social support has only an indirect effect on help-seeking intention and the proposed model explained 20 % of the total variance. According to the results of the study, greater perceived social support related to greater life satisfaction, positive attitudes toward seeking psychological help, which in turn, resulted in greater intention to seek psychological help. This result was also in line with the Figueiredo, Fries, and Ingram’s (2004) study results. The results support that life satisfaction, and positive attitudes toward psychological help-seeking mediated the relationship between perceived social support, and intention to seek psychological help. One may speculate that this result confirms that perceived social support is one of the protective factors in distressful situations (Malinauskas, 2010; Perna, 2011; Stewart, 2008; Vogel et al., 2007). Therefore, one’s social support sources may encourage the individual to receive psychological help. This research contributes to literature by showing that intention to seek psychological help was predicted by perceived social support Algılanan Sosyal Destek, Yaşam Doyumu, Psikolojik Yardım Almaya İlişkin… 983 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 10/2 Winter 2015 through the life satisfaction, and attitudes toward psychological helpseeking. The results clearly indicate that people providing social support to the individual may influence the life satisfaction of them, their attitudes and in turn, their intentions to seek psychological help by encouraging them to receive help when they need. Future research studies may examine the other mediator variables (i.e., self-stigma and social stigma for receiving psychological help) between the perceived social support and intention to seek psychological help. The role of perceived social support in reducing the negative effects of the stigma for receiving psychological help can also be investigated. Thus, we can understand whether there is a relationship between the perception about the negative effects of the stigma for receiving psychological help and perceived social support. Future studies may also examine the other cultural variables (i.e., individualism-collectivism) that may be related to help seeking intention