Relationship between Suicidal Ideation and Cognitive Styles among Young Adults

Young Adulthood is a stage where there is pressure from family, peers, educational system and other co- curricular activities. It is this stage when children start developing symptoms of anxiety and depression that further leads to suicidal ideation and distorted cognitive styles. Expressivity, in terms of suicidal ideation and cognition have been studied widely as individual concepts among young adults but, cognitive styles have never been into consideration so far. The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between Suicidal Ideation and Cognitive Style among young adults. The sample consisted of total 100 people (of 100 was taken) (N=100) with an age range of 18-25 years. The sample was collected using purposive sampling technique. For the purpose of data collection, Suicidal Ideation Scale by Dr. Devendra Singh Sisodiya & Dr. Vibhuti Bhatnagar and Cognitive Style Inventory by Dr. Praveen Kumar Jha were used. The quantitative was done by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The findings reveal that there is a significant correlation between Suicidal Ideation and Systematic Cognitive Style and hence, hypothesis 1 has been accepted completely. In addition to this, there is no correlation found between Suicidal Ideation and Intuitive Cognitive Style and hence, hypothesis 2 has been rejected completely. The discussion focuses on similar researches and work done on such topic.