ISSN: 2320-9038 Volume 5, Issue 1 (2017) ____________________________________________________ Page 618 Guru Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences Psychosocial Problems, Help-Seeking Behaviour and Resilience among Students in schools with no Psychologist Santhosh, K. R* and Ngullie, T** *Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560029. **Special Teacher, Christian Institute of Health Sciences & Research, Dimapur, Nagaland – 797115 Received: 27 Jan 2017 Revised: 12 Feb 2017 Accepted: 20 Feb 2017 Keywords: Help seeking behaviour, Psycho-social problems, Resilience, Students, Psychologist Abstract The psychosocial problems and help seeking behaviour among students in the schools with no psychologist were investigated. A purposive sample of 209 students, from different private schools with no psychologist at Kohima district in the state of Nagaland, India, was chosen for the study. Multi-Problem Screening Inventory (MPSI), General Help-seeking Questionnaire- Vignette Version (GHSQ-V), and Bharathiar University Resilience Scale were used to measure the variables. Males were identified to be significantly different from females in their problems with school, aggression, alcohol abuse and drug abuse. Significant sex differences were seen in help seeking behaviour to a friend not closely related to them, to parent, and others. Resilience was significantly negatively related to depression, reduced self-esteem, problems with mother, problems with father, personal stress, problems with, suicidal, feelings of guilt, problems with school, confused thinking, and disturbing thoughts. © 2017 Guru Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences Psychosocial problems include personality and presence of psychiatric disorder, as well as family, peer and other environmental factors that shall increase the risk of an individual developing an addictive disorder (Institute of Medicine, 1987). Common psychosocial problems noted among the students include depression, low self-esteem (Reddy, Rhodes, & Muhall, 2003), bullying, suicidal ideation (Kiltiala-Heino, Rimpela, Marttunen, Rimpela, & Rantanen, 1999), stress, faulty coping strategies, tensed family relationships (Ng & Hurry, 2011), self- derogation, peer influenced social control (Kalpan, Martin, & Robbins, 1984), alcohol use and drug abuse (Ross, Richard, &Potvin, 1998). Resources, either external or internal, shall help students maintain resilience, the ability to face and respond to changing situational demands and to bounce back from negative emotional experiences (Tugade & Fredrickson, 2004). External resources include support from parents, siblings, neighbours (Conger & Conger, 2002), school and peer support (O'Donnell, Schwab-Stone, & Muyeed, 2002), social support (Smith & Carlson, 1997), positive child-hood development (Lee, Kwong, Cheung, Ungar & Cheung, 2010), parental involvement, parent's values about school, parental expectations about the student, involvement in religion, involvement in prosocial activities, close ties to an adult outside the family (Smith, Thornberry, Krohn, & Lizotte, 1995), etc. High self esteem (Dumont & provost, 1999), active and internal coping strategies (Krenke, Aunola & Nurmi, 2009), good learning and problem solving capacity, perceived efficacy valued by self or society (Masten, Best, and Garmezy, 1990), and so on were identified to be the internal resources. There are some factors that can challenge and thereby depose resilience. These factors include domestic violence (Torteya, Bogat, Eye, & Levendosky, 2009), stressful situations (Krenke, Aunola, & Nurmi, 2009), unhealthy life style factors such as substance use, low physical activity (Skrove, Romundstad & Indredavik, 2013), increasing adversity (Lee, Kwong, Cheung, Ungar & Cheung, 2010), economic deprivation, less social network (Benard, 1991), etc. These factors can lead to psychosocial problems also. For instance, poor interpersonal interactions with parents, peers and life events show the way to depression, which in turn leads to suicidal ideation (Kandel, Raveis & Davies, 1991). Due to low resilience, students may lack Guru Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences Volume 5 Issue 1(Jan –Mar, 2017) ISSN: 2320-9038 www.gjbss.org