Kim, JPhillips, JGOgeil, RP2025-12-102025-12-1020212021Kim, J., Phillips, J. G., & Ogeil, R. P. (2022). Nowhere else to go: Help seeking online and maladaptive decisional styles. Computers in Human Behavior, 128, 107103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.1071030747-5632http://hdl.handle.net/10292/20386Many high-risk individuals do not use mental health services. This is a concern for mental health and suicide prevention efforts, and requires an examination of the role of decision-making style upon willingness to seek help. To consider whether defensive avoidance influenced willingness to engage with Professionals or online assistance, participants (N = 189) answered an online survey, completing the Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire and WHOQOLBref. Participants were then asked their preferred source of assistance, and their subsequent behaviour (time, clicks) was tracked on a debrief page listing sources of assistance. Overall quality of life was used to determine risk. Multiple regression indicated that people with poorer quality of life had poorer decisional styles. A 2 × 4 Risk by Preferred Source of Assistance MANOVA found that: (1) people seeking online assistance were hypervigilant procrastinators; (2) self-sufficiency and an unwillingness to seek professional assistance by those at risk was linked to panic and confirmed behaviourally from the increased number of clicks on a debrief page. Decision making styles can influence quality of life, and help-seeking behaviors, and this has implications for outreach towards those with poor engagement with offline mental health services.This is the Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Computers in Human Behavior © Elsevier, 2021. The Version of Record is available at DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2021.107103https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/Journal ArticleOpenAccess10.1016/j.chb.2021.107103