Predicting suicidal thoughts based identity styles and self-acceptance in students

This research has been done with goal of checking relation of identity styles and self-acceptance with suicidal thoughts among Shiraz university students. Statistical population was consists of 300 students from six departments of Shiraz University in the academic year of 2019-2020, that were chosen as the samples of the study by the way of measure of multistage cluster. The instruments of the study were as follow: the questionnaire of Berzonski's styles of identity, the questionnaire of self-acceptance, and the scale of Beck's idea of suicide. Data was analyzed by Pearson correlation test and the analysis of multiple regressions at the same time and step by step. The results showed that there is a meaningful and negative relationship between informative and normative identity styles with suicidal thoughts (p<0/01). And also a meaningful and positive relationship between avoidable deuced identity style suicidal thoughts (p<0/01). Besides, there is a meaningful and negative relation between unconditioned self-acceptance and suicidal thoughts (p<0/01). Results also demonstrated that informative and normative identity styles and unconditioned self-acceptance are negative anticipator of suicidal thoughts; and avoidable deduced identity styles is positive anticipator of suicidal thoughts.