How do person factors such as age, gender, and self-esteem affect the likelihood of someone asking for needed help?

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Answer: Students should discuss: the effects of gender roles on when each gender decides to ask for help; how individual help seeking tends to drop around the age of 7 or 8 and then again around age 60; and how people higher in self-esteem may be reluctant to ask for help in situations where obtaining help might threaten a competent self-image.

Psychology

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