A Study of Suicidal Tendency among Annamalai University Students

Anicham J Anicham J,Binshad M Binshad M,Dr R Sankar Dr R Sankar,M Amin Wani M Amin Wani,Nargees S Nargees S

doi:10.25215/0303.003

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Abstract

Objective: – Suicide is third leading cause of death among modern youth and second leading cause of death among college students. The present study examined effect of gender and faculty on suicidal tendency among students. Method: – This study is based on sample of 100 students divided into two groups 50 males and 50 females. In each group 25 students have science & 25 have arts subjects. Samples were selected through sample random sampling method. The suicidal tendency among the students was measured by Suicidal Tendency Scale constructed by Dr. D. J. Bhatt and Dr. R. G. Meghnathi. Mean & ANOVA were applied for data analysis. Results: – The results of the present study demonstrated that female student’s shows high suicidal tendency than male students as the mean score of female students (74.38) is more than mean score of male students (71.06). Results also revealed that students from science faculty have also high suicidal tendency than arts students as the obtained mean scores of science students (76.88) is more than mean scores of students of arts faculty (68.56). Conclusions: – Female and science students have high suicidal tendency than male students and arts students.

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The present research endeavor was aimed to find out the effect of gender and faculty on suicidal tendency
For this purpose the data was collected from Annamalai University students by using Suicidal Tendency Scale constructed by Dr D
The scores were arranged in tabular form to find Mean value; ANOVA was applied to test hypotheses

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The main factors of suicide among students are academic stress, depression, hopelessness, sexual abuse, 1 Ph.D Research Scholar of Psychology Annamalai University Tamil Nadu, India. 2014 Maharashtra (12.4%) Tamil Nadu (12.2%) West Bengal (10.9%) Karnataka (8.3%) Telangana (7.3%) Every year huge number of research’s is conducted by researchers throughout the world like Bhalala (2014)[2] revealed that female and urban students showed higher level of suicide tendency male and rural students. Zheng & Wang (2014)[3] found that female medical students have higher rate of suicidal tendency.

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