Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: August | Volume: 7 | Issue: 8 | Pages: 292-297
Importance of Emotion Regulation and Coping in Adolescents with Suicidal Ideation
Shatarupa Chattopadhyay1, Shobhna Joshi2
1Post-Doctoral Fellow (ICSSR), Department of Psychology, B.H.U. Varanasi-221005.
2Professor, Department of Psychology, B.H.U. Varanasi-221005.
Corresponding Author: Shatarupa Chattopadhyay
ABSTRACT
Adolescence is a period of transition from childhood that implies many developmental changes and associated problems. The statistics show that adolescents aged between 16 and 19 years old are at high risk of committing suicide. There is insignificant available research scrutinizing the relationship of proactive coping and emotion regulation in adolescents with suicidal ideation.
Aims: (1) to screen out adolescents with suicidal ideation, (2) to compare proactive coping in terms of proactive and avoidance coping between suicidal ideation and control group of adolescents and (3) to examine the level of emotion regulation among adolescents with suicidal ideation and control group.
Setting and Design: The sample of the study is comprised of 150 students between the age group of 17-19 years from Varanasi city, India. method of purposive sampling was used.
Method and Material: Three scales viz. Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire – Revised (SBQ), Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) and Proactive Coping Inventory (PCI) were administered. The cut off scores were decided statistically i.e. M+1SD for screening the adolescents with suicidal ideation. Likewise subjects who scored between M-1SD to M+1SD were designated as controls. Final screening stands with 12 subjects each in both the groups.
Statistical analysis: Mean, standard deviation, and t-tests were applied to analyze the data.
Result and conclusion: The results obtained revealed significant difference between the two groups in the level of cognitive reappraisal and proactive coping, thus signifying the necessity of intervention for adolescents having suicidal ideation.
Keywords: Adolescents, cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, proactive coping and preventive coping.
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