The Impact of Army Resilience Training on the Self-Stigma of Seeking Help in Student Veterans With and Without Disabilities

Abstract

The literature has highlighted the concerning disparity between the percentage of veterans with mental health disabilities and the percentage of those who seek psychological services. Stigma, specifically selfstigma, has been associated with a low rate of seeking help among veterans. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the current knowledge on resilience training by exploring the relationship between previous army resilience training, self-stigma of help-seeking, personality traits, and service-connected disability among student veterans. First, researchers psychometrically validated the Self-Stigma of Seeking Help scale and examined whether U.S. Army resiliency training predicted self-stigma of seeking help after controlling for sociodemographic factors and Big Five personality traits. Findings of this study revealed that resilience training was negatively associated with self-stigma of seeking help