Public Stigma and Self-Stigma for Help Seeking: The Moderating Roles of Family income and Education

In this study, we investigated what social, demographic and cultural factors predict and moderate the relationship between public and self stigma for help seeking. Analyses revealed a positive relationship between public and self-stigma, supporting the theory that self-stigma is internalised public stigma; no factors predicted public stigma suggesting that public stigma does not differ as a function of these different factors; that education and family income both predict self-stigma and moderate the relationship between public and self-stigma, despite personal income not predicting self-stigma or moderating the relationship between public and self-stigma.