DOI: 10.5176/2251-1865_CBP19.76
Authors: Amar Damle and Sneha Dabir
Abstract: With rising expectations, and reduced demand for Engineering Graduate, there is a lot of stress and anxiety among Indian students who are pursuing engineering. The entry in the professional colleges is not easy and economic. Even after the entry, the problems in day-to- day education are stressful. Academic reasons like too extended syllabus, the difficulty of the curriculum, studying hours, rigid authoritative and non-encouraging faculty, and Personal factors like Level of Intelligence, Personality, Self-concept, Emotional Intelligence, Achievement Motivation Levels, and Environmental factors such as peer pressure, tough competition, home sickness, financial issues, uncertainty about future, are some of them. Higher levels of stress may cause because, the ability and expectation do not match. Cumulatively, this may lead to increased suicidal ideation among engineering college students. The suicidal tendency would depend on many factors of personality; this behaviour begins with emotional turmoil, and ideation. Another factor playing an important role during this phase is low Self-Concept, which leads to isolation, negative thoughts, and depression. Opposite to this, higher self-concept is associated with high levels of motivation, a greater emotional control, lesser levels of anxiety and capacity to cope with internal and external stress. The Engineering students are at high risk, with increased stress about future. The present research was aimed at studying the Self-Concept as predictor of Suicidal Ideation among the Engineering Colleges of Nagpur region. Sample size comprised of 450 undergraduate students of engineering colleges from different branches of Nagpur Region. This being a co-relational study, the hypotheses were tested using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation ‘r’. Two tests were used for the research; Self-Concept Questionnaire (SCQ) standardized by Saraswat Raj Kumar (1984), and Suicide Probability Scale (SPS) prepared by John
G. Cull & Wayne S. Gill (1989). The outcome of the study revealed that: There is a strong and negative correlation between SelfConcept and Suicidal Ideation among Engineering College Students (r = -0.753). Indicating that lower the levels of Self-Concept, higher are the students at risk of suicidal ideation. Out of the various self-concept areas, the Moral Self-Concept (r= -0.92), Social SelfConcept (r= -0.94), and Temperamental SelfConcept (r= -0.96) have a negative and very strong relationship with the Suicidal Ideation of students. However, the Intellectual Self-Concept (r= -0.34), Educational Self-Concept (r= -0.32), and Physical Self-Concept (r= -0.29) have a weak correlation. This indicates that even if the Physical, Educational, and Intellectual development of self-concept is not strong, risk of suicidal ideation is low, but development of the Moral, Social, and Temperamental self-concept is very vital even in the students of higher professional and technical education like Engineering. This signifies the importance and role of parents, and teachers in the social and moral development of students, at an early stage of life
Keywords: Self-Concept, Suicidal Ideation, Engineering Students, Co-relational Study.
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