Assortive Relationship Between locus of Control and Thoughts of Life and Death in the Students of the Sistan and Balouchestan University.

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Sadegh  Slajaghe ¹ (M.A, Department of Psychology, University of Sistan-Balochestan, Sistan-Balochestan, Iran)
Mahvash  Raghibi ² (Assistant professor, Department of Psychology, University of Sistan-Balochestan, Sistan-Balochestan, Iran)

Received: 2013-09-06 Accepted : 2013-12-24 Published : 2014-02-20

Keywords: Locus of control, University Students, Thoughts of life and Thoughts of death,

Abstract :

The studies related to suicide , investigate three important phenomena which include suicide thoughts , suicide action , and suicide .pick in 1991 discussed that suicide thoughts is a two factor concept , which is specified with absence of life thoughts and presence of death thoughts . Therefore, this research has been accomplished with the objective of surveying the relation between control resource (internal – external) and life and death thoughts of the university students. The research was accomplished in Sistan and Balouchestan, in educational year 2008 -2009. 370 students (182 girls and 188 boys) were selected as statistical sample by classificatory random sampling method. After performance of control resource, life thoughts and suicide thoughts questionnaires, the data were gathered. In addition to using descriptive statistical methods such as frequency, the data were analyzed by statistical method of K square congruence.  The findings demonstrated that the girls with internal control resource had higher life thoughts but they did not have lower death thoughts than girls with external control resource. Also, girls with external control resource had lower life thoughts but they did not have higher death thoughts. Boys with internal control did not have higher life thoughts and lower death thoughts, and boys with external control resource did not have lower life thoughts and higher death thoughts.  Probably, one of the reasons that control resource in this research has less effects, is the power of religious and cultural beliefs. Probably, spiritual control resource can be more effective in controlling individual behaviors.