Restricted Emotion and its Relationship to Suicidal Ideation in Adolescents

Abstract

The current study aimed to determine whether there is a correlation between restricted emotion and suicidal thinking among adolescents in secondary and preparatory schools in the city of Baghdad and the significance of the difference according to the gender variable (males-females). The researcher relied on the theoretical model of gender role conflict by O’Neil to build the restricted emotion scale. The number of paragraphs of the scale was (17) paragraphs in its final form. The scale was applied to a sample of (400) adolescents in preparatory schools, where the sample was selected randomly. As for suicidal thinking, the researcher adopted the scale (Ali, 2023), which is based in its psychological content on the theory adopted by Beck (1979). The number of paragraphs of the scale was (28) paragraphs in its final form. The scale was applied to the same sample of adolescents in preparatory schools, where the sample was selected randomly, as it was distributed into three areas that were divided into (suicide at the level of desire) (suicide at the level of perception), (suicide at the level of Implementation), and the researcher extracted the indicators of validity and reliability for the two scales in two ways, as the reliability coefficient by the Cronbach's alpha for the restricted emotion scale reached (0.73) and by the retest method it reached (0.91). After collecting the data and processing it statistically, the results appeared as follows: The presence of restricted emotion and there were statistically significant differences in the gender variable in favor of males in restricted emotion. The reliability coefficient for suicidal thinking by the Cronbach's alpha method reached (0.89) and by the retest method (0.87). After collecting the data and processing it statistically, the results appeared as follows: There is no suicidal thinking among the sample members and there were statistically significant differences in the gender variable in favor of males . To complete the research procedures, the researcher came up with a set of recommendations and suggestions