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Ibadat Khan ¹, V. V. Upmanyu ¹, Seema Vinayak ¹, Sajjan Kumar ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, IN
2 Government College for Women, Lakhanmajra, Rohtak, Havana, IN

Abstract

Suicide ts a social as well mental problem worldwide. Suicide ideation is the pre-indication of suicide attempts or completion of suicide. Adolescents are at risk of suicide ideation while facing life challenges. It is often seen in the higher rate of suicide commitment among young male population. Many cognitive, emotional, and familial factors play a major role in evoking suicidal thoughts among male adolescents. The present study was an attempt to investigate the role of depression, hopelessness, anxiety, cognitive rigidity, affective dysregulation, and family environment as predictors of suicide ideation. The sample consisted of 150 male adolescents with age range of 15-17 years from different government schools of Chandigarh. The obtained data was analyzed with step wise regression analysis. The results revealed that combination of decreased organization and moral-religious emphasis in family environment and depression were the potent predictors of suicide ideation among male adolescents.

Keywords

Suicide Ideation, Adolescents, Depression, Affective Dysregulation, Family Environment.

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Seema Vinayak ¹, Madhvi Malhotra ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, IN

Abstract

Technology revolutions and inventions have provided the world with various inventions for various purposes. Each and every invention has brought comforts additionally as well as some threatening effects with it. Same is in the case with mobile phone technology. Addictive mobile phone use can be regarded as an impulse control disorder that does not involve an intoxicant and is similar to the addictive use of various technologies, such as the internet. Since its appearance in the psychiatric and clinical psychology literature, problematic use of the Mobile phone has been viewed as a disorder and conceptualized as an addictive behavior (Billieux, 2012). Therefore it is an important area to be explored. The current investigation was designed to study the impact of Impulsiveness on Mobile phone addiction and to compare Mobile phone addiction and Impulsiveness among adolescent males and females. For this purpose Impulsiveness scale (Barratt, 1995) and Mobile phone addiction scale (Velayudhan & Srividya, 2012) were administered to a sample of 100 adolescents (50 males & 50 females) in the age range of 14-19 years. The sample was collected from the private schools of Chandigarh. Pearson Product Moment Correlation method was used for statistical analysis of the results in order to determine the impact of impulsiveness on mobile phone addiction and t-test was used to compare mobile phone addiction and impulsiveness among adolescent males and females. Impulsiveness has been positively correlated to mobile phone addiction.

Keywords

Mobile Phone, Mobile Phone Addiction, Impulsiveness.

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