Document Type : Research Article
Authors
1 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran
2 University of the Persian Gulf
3 Bushehr Persian Gulf University
Abstract
Prediction of suicidal thoughts based on the indicators of personality transcendence and emotional regulation in college students
Introduction
Suicide as a psychological-social trauma threatens different strata of the society specifically vulnerable groups such as young adolescent and the young. Besides, university students as the young group of the society are not safe from this trauma due to the environmental factors including educational problems and failure, unemployment and financial problems, failure in emotional relationships, the inappropriate physical spaces of dormitories, and the vague occupational future. In addition to the environmental factors, some personal factors including psychological characteristics could have a harmful or protective role in relation to the social traumas such as suicide. The present study examined the predictable role of personality transcendence and its dimensions besides the expertness of emotion regulation in suicidal thoughts of university students.
Method
Persian Gulf University. The participants were all the students of Persian Gulf University in the years 1399-1400. The subjects included 200 students (119 male, 81 female) which were selected based on multistage cluster sampling. The applied measurement in this study included Pakizeh Personality Transcendence questionnaire and Gross Emotion Regulation Difficulty questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results
The results of the statistical analysis indicated that personality transcendence is the reverse predictor of suicidal thoughts and the emotion regulation problems are the direct predictor of suicidal thoughts in university students. In addition, the results of the investigation suggested that the dimensions.
Discussion
Considering the preventive role of personality transcendence dimensions and the facilitating role of emotion regulation problems in students' tendency to commit suicide, the implementation of educational programs in order to improve students' character excellence and training skills in order to apply adaptive strategies of emotion regulation and solve regulation problems emotional, can play an effective role in reducing mental and physical injuries and the unfortunate consequences of suicide in the university environment
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