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Although extraversion, social support, and psychological help-seeking all facilitate access to mental health information, their combined and sequential roles in influencing MHL remain underexplored. Using the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behavior (COM-B) model, this study examined the serial mediating roles of social support and psychological help-seeking in the relationship between extraversion and MHL in Chinese adolescents.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A cross-sectional online survey was conducted involving 482 adolescents (ages 16\u201319; 56.43% girls) from Hunan Province, China. The participants completed the Extraversion Personality Questionnaire, Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), General Help-Seeking Questionnaire (GHSQ), and Mental Health Literacy Questionnaire (MHLQ). Data were analyzed using correlation and chain mediation analyses (bootstrapping with 5,000 samples), while controlling for gender and birthplace.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      (1) Extraversion, social support, psychological help-seeking, and MHL were all positively correlated with each other (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt;\u202f0.001). (2) Path analysis revealed that social support (\u03b2\u202f=\u202f0.072, 95% CI [0.033, 0.125]) and psychological help-seeking (\u03b2\u202f=\u202f0.037, 95% CI [0.013, 0.072]) independently mediated the relationship between extraversion and MHL. (3) Additionally, these factors also serially mediated this relationship (\u03b2\u202f=\u202f0.046, 95% CI [0.026, 0.073]). However, the direct effect of extraversion on MHL was not significant (\u03b2\u202f=\u202f0.021, 95% CI [\u22120.071, 0.113]), indicating full mediation.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Social support and psychological help-seeking sequentially and fully mediate the relationship between extraversion and MHL in adolescents. Enhancing social support systems and promoting proactive help-seeking may effectively improve MHL, even among individuals with low extraversion.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2025.1562788","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,8]],"date-time":"2026-01-08T05:13:35Z","timestamp":1767849215000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Relationship between extraversion and mental health literacy in Chinese adolescents: a chain mediation model"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Zhanfang","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fangru","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jianzheng","family":"Du","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1177\/20552076251381761","article-title":"The effectiveness of mental health literacy digital awareness campaign on social discrimination, willingness to seek professional psychological help, and intended behaviors among high school students in Jordan","volume":"11","author":"Amer","year":"2025","journal-title":"Digit. 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