VERBAL VICTIMIZATION AND SUICIDAL IDEATION AMONG ADULTS: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF PSYCH ACHE

Abstract

The study was designed to investigate the relationship between verbal victimization, with the mediating role of psychache and suicidal ideation among youth. The study was intended to have a detailed mediating role of psychache as a strong predictor of verbal victimization and suicidal ideation. To assess verbal victimization MPVS (Maynard & Joseph) of subscale verbal victimization, the psychache scale (Holden et al., 2001) and suicidal ideation SSI (beck,1974) in adults were used. The study was carried out on a sample of 245 young adults N=245(n=81 males, n=161 females) and analysis was performed through SPSS-23. The psychometric properties of each scales were assessed. The alpha coefficient for each scales and their subscale were computed. Multidimensional peer victimization scale (MPVS) was used to measure the verbal victimization in students along its one dimension verbal victimization subscale (α=0.73), the psychache scale was used to measure the mediating role of psychache in adults, the coefficient of this scale was 0.89. that is good which means that the results of all scales were reliable. The Beck suicidal ideation scale was used to measure the suicidal ideation in young, the α coefficient of this scale is 0.89 that shows that the results of scale are reliable. Verbal victimization was significantly positive to suicidal ideation, and psychache had significantly positive relation with suicidal ideation, psychache was also mediating the relations between verbal victimization and suicidal ideation among adults. The present research demonstrated the significant differences in verbal victimization among adult, the findings were the male has high rate of verbal victimization, which also supported the previous literature.