Coping Style as a Moderator of Perfectionism and Suicidal Ideation Among Undergraduate Students

This study investigates the relationship between coping style, two types of perfectionism, and suicidal ideation among undergraduates, and examines coping style as a moderator of the relationship between perfectionism and suicidal ideation. Multi-stage cluster random sampling was employed to recruit 547 undergraduate students aged 19–24 years from the Islamic Azad University of Karaj. Structural Equation Modelling indicated that suicidal ideation was negatively associated with adaptive perfectionism and task-focused coping but positively associated with emotion-focused coping, avoida nce coping, and maladaptive perfectionism. Coping style (including the three styles of task-focused, emotion-focused, and avoidance coping) was found to moderate the relationship between perfectionism and suicidal ideation. The study advances understanding of the importance of coping style in this c ontext and explains how perfectionism affects suicidal ideation.

Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - October 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research