Article archive / July 1, 2015
Originally published: . Volume 6, No. 7. Source pages: 12.
LaTech Grad Student Marcus Cherry Awarded First in Research Poster
Mr. Marcus Cherry, M.S., graduate student at Louisiana Tech was awarded the first place honors for his research and poster, “Personality and Coping Strategies as Predictors of Help-Seeking Attitudes among Military-Affiliated and Civilian Students.” Cherry’s co-author is Dr. Margaret Cochran, professor at Northwestern State in Natchitoches.
Cherry collected date from 282 participants in an online survey composed of a demographic questionnaire, the Big Five Inventory, the Revised COPE, and the Beliefs About Psychological Services Scale.
Cheery and Cochran found therapy use was significantly associated with higher help-seeking attitudes. He wrote that students who participated in therapy reported higher scores on the Beliefs About Psychological Services scale, when compared to the non-help-seeking counterparts.
In a second hypothesis, he examined results about personality and coping. Cherry and Cochran found that agreeableness, openness, self-help, approach, accommodation, and avoidance were significantly related to help-seeking attitudes.
Results also revealed an insignificant military affiliation main effect, a significant gender main effect, and an insignificant interaction between military affiliation and gender, according to the presentation. He also produced a multiple regression to better understand the variables predicting help-seeking attitudes.
Mr. Cherry’s professor at LaTech is Dr. Lore Dickey.
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