Suicidal ideation and its relationship to cognitive distortions among university students

Abstract

    The current recognition research aims to:

1. Thinking about finishing university.
2. Tourism distortions at the university
3. Correspondence between suicidal ideation and tourist distortions with university students.
4. The difference in the compatibility between creative thinking and tourism distortions at the university according to the gender variable (males - females).
5. Differences in compatibility between intellectual thinking and tourism distortions at the university according to specialization (scientific-humanitarian).

To achieve the research objectives, the researcher adopted the scale (Al-Taie 2019) to measure suicidal ideation, which in its final form consists of (24) items, and the Aaron Beck scale, Arabicized by (Al-Shammari 2013), to measure cognitive distortions, which in its final form consists of (39) items. After extracting the psychometric properties of the two scales in terms of validity and reliability, the researcher applied the two scales to a sample of (200) male and female students from the College of Education/Al-Mustansiriya University who were chosen randomly.

The results showed that the students do not have suicidal thoughts compared to the theoretical average, and that they enjoy high awareness and do not have cognitive distortions. The results also showed that there is a direct relationship between suicidal ideation and cognitive distortions, while no differences appeared in the relationship according to the variables of gender and specialization. In light of the results, the researcher gave some recommendations and suggestions