TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTING STYLE, SOCIAL SUPPORT ON SUICIDE IDEATIONS AMONG YOUNG ADULTS

According to the Registrar General of India, reported a total of 1,39,123 suicides in 2019 which had increased from 2018, in which 1,34,516 young adults committed suicide, an increase from 1,29,887 in 2017. The aim of research is to investigate the relationship between parenting style , social support on suicide ideations among young adults. A sample of 100 participants were collected from which 50 were male and 50 were female aged from 18 to 25 years old. The scale used were Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) by Zimet et al. (1988), The Scale for Suicide Ideation by Beck, Parental Authority Questionnaire by Baumrind (shortversion). Finding suggest that their was no correlation between parenting style, and suicide ideation were as their is negative correlation between social support and suicide ideation, also their could be seen a sightly higher difference between male suicide ideations than female.