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This study explores the relationship between mental health provider and consumer attitudes toward telehealth to determine the extent to which attitudes toward telehealth are related to participant type (provider versus consumer). Additionally, several other factors, including training and experience with telehealth (for providers) as well as stigma and help-seeking behaviors (for consumers), are explored to determine the strength of the relationship between these variables and attitudes toward telehealth. The current study also explores the potential impact of COVID-19 on participants' attitudes toward telehealth. Hypotheses predicted that providers and consumers will report significantly different attitudes toward telehealth and that attitudes toward telehealth will be significant related to and predicted by both training and experience with telehealth (for providers) as well as stigma and help-seeking behaviors (for consumers). A series of statistical analyses, including a one-way between-subject analyses of variance and an independent sample t test, was conducted to determine if significant differences exist among these two groups. Additionally, correlational and regression analyses were conducted to explore the relationship between training and experience with telehealth (for providers);stigma and help-seeking behaviors (for consumers);and well as COVID-19 and attitudes toward telehealth (for all participants). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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Previous research has established that creative adolescents are generally low in neuroticism and as well-adjusted as their peers. From 2006 to 2013, data from cohorts of creative adolescents attending a counseling laboratory supported these results. Clinical findings of increased anxiety, depression, and suicidality among creative students in 2014 led the researchers to create 3 studies to explore these clinical findings. Once artifactual causes of these changes were ruled out, a quantitative study was conducted. Study 1, an analysis of mean differences of pre-2014 and post-2014 cohorts showed that post-2014 cohorts scored significantly higher in Neuroticism, Openness to Experience, and Conscientiousness and lower in Extraversion on Big 5 inventories. Regression analyses suggested that while Neuroticism was associated with gender, Conscientiousness and Grade Point Average for the earlier group, Neuroticism in the post 2014 groups was related to complex interplay of all personality dynamics except Agreeableness. In the qualitative Study 2, focus groups of 6-10 students, for a total of 102 participants were queried about the reasons they perceived for increased anxiety and depression in creative students. Increased achievement pressures and awareness of environmental and social problems were major sources of external stressors; perfectionism and desire to fulfill expectations of others were the primary sources of internal stress. The authors suggest that creative students' openness to experience and advanced knowledge made it possible for these students to see the potential for environmental and social crises and respond to their inability to solve these problems with anxiety and depression. Study 3 was a qualitative study that followed up 19 participants from the post-2014 cohort to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and creativity. While the majority perceived a negative effect of the pandemic on their mental health, most also produced a surprising variety of creative works during that time. In conclusion, rapid changes in the lives of creative adolescents since 2014 suggest that scholars focus on current cohorts and the ways in which adolescent personality is shaped by internal expectation and external pressures and global events. Despite the pandemic, creative young people continued to create.