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Emotional Intelligence and Suicide: Need to Expand Vision


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1 Department of Paediatrics, IMS, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
     

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The risk of someone committing suicide continues to be an elusive challenge for health professionals. And the role of emotional intelligence is an ongoing issue in suicide prevention. Either emotional intelligence may play an important role to reduce suicidal thinking/attempts or not is a big question. So this is an appropriate goal for future research. To evaluate the role of emotional intelligence in suicide. Various researches support the notion that emotional intelligence is able to reduce the suicidal thinking and attempts. This paper is theoretical base of subject and there is a predominance of western studies regarding the role of emotional intelligence in suicide. There is need to expand the vision about emotional intelligence, create awareness and effort to develop emotional intelligence in children during their childhood because it can be developed and better able to reduce negative thoughts of life including suicide even in the period of adverse condition.

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Suicide, Suicidal Thinking, Emotional Intelligence.
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Aparna Singh
Department of Paediatrics, IMS, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Abstract


The risk of someone committing suicide continues to be an elusive challenge for health professionals. And the role of emotional intelligence is an ongoing issue in suicide prevention. Either emotional intelligence may play an important role to reduce suicidal thinking/attempts or not is a big question. So this is an appropriate goal for future research. To evaluate the role of emotional intelligence in suicide. Various researches support the notion that emotional intelligence is able to reduce the suicidal thinking and attempts. This paper is theoretical base of subject and there is a predominance of western studies regarding the role of emotional intelligence in suicide. There is need to expand the vision about emotional intelligence, create awareness and effort to develop emotional intelligence in children during their childhood because it can be developed and better able to reduce negative thoughts of life including suicide even in the period of adverse condition.

Keywords


Suicide, Suicidal Thinking, Emotional Intelligence.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.15614/ijpp%2F2012%2Fv3i2%2F88494