A Study of Coping Resource, Perceived Stress and Self Efficacy in Relation with Suicidal Ideation among Students

Suicide has major concern in the present societal scenario. This is a complicated problem for today. Stress is the major cause for suicidal thoughts. Suicidal thoughts can be prevented by various coping resource techniques and self efficacy. Keeping all these views in mind the present study was conducted. The present study is an attempt to relate the suicidal ideation, perceived stress, coping strategies and self efficacy in students. The sample was constituted on 204 students (102 male and 102 females) of engineering colleges of Haryana state with the age range of 18-25 years. The results revealed that positive coping strategies have negative correlation with suicidal ideation. Perceived stress has positive correlation with suicidal ideation among college students.