Forecasting Suicide Ideation Based on Self-esteem and Social phobia in Homosexual Men

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Yazd Branch, Yazd, Iran

3 Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Kashan Branch, Kashan, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction: Homosexuality refers to the emotional, sexual and romantic attraction of a person to his or her same-sex. Homosexuals face many emotional- behavioral challenges in personal and social life. One of the issues that homosexuals face is suicide, which psychological problems, self-esteem, and social phobia can underlie to suicide. So the purpose of this research was to forecasting suicide ideation based on self-esteem and social phobia in homosexual men.
Methods: The method was correlational and participants included gays who went to counseling center and 200 out of them were chosen as a research sample through the available sampling method. Research instruments included Beck's Suicide Scale Ideation Questionnaire, Eysenck's Self-esteem Scale Questionnaire and Connor's Social Phobia Inventory. To analyze the data, the descriptive statistics methods and inferential statistics was including Pearson correlation and regression linear multiplex with the error Level of 0.05 by utilizing of SPSS 24 software.
Results: There was a positive and significant correlation between self-esteem and social phobia with suicidal ideation (P<0/01). Self-esteem variables (P<0/01, β=0/5) forecasted suicide ideation negatively, but social phobia variable couldn't forecast suicide ideation (P>0/05).
Conclusion: Different sexual orientation, incomplete identification, guilty are factors that reduce self-esteem in homosexuals and lead them to suicide. It is recommended experts and institutions related to this filed pay attention to Identifying homosexual's problems and helping them to prevent them from committing suicide as much as possible.

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medical journal of mashhad university of medical sciences
Volume 62, Issue 5.1
November and December 2019
Pages 861-869

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