The Survey of Relationship between Perceived Stress, Coping Strategies and Suicide Ideation among Students at University of Guilan, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationship between perceived stress, coping strategies and suicide ideation among students at University of Guilan, Iran. The research method was a descriptive study kind of correlation. To accomplish this goal, in a correlation study, 300 university students (144 female and 156 male) were selected from Humanities Faculty University of Guilan through a cluster random sampling in the 2012-2013 academic years. The following measures were administered on them: Cohen Perceived Stress, Billings and Moos Coping Strategies Questionnaire and Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation. Research results showed that there was significant positive relationship between suicide ideation with perceived stress, emotion- oriented strategies with perceived stress and emotion- oriented strategies with suicide ideation. Also the results showed that there were significant negative relationships between perceived stress with problem- oriented strategies and suicidal ideation with problem- oriented strategies. Results of the multiple stepwise regressions in this study show that all independent variables in equation during three steps allocate 18 percent of suicide ideation variance.