Relationship of Psychological Adjustment, Anxiety, Stress, Depression, Suicide Ideation, and Social Support among University Students

Tending to the emotional well-being necessities for students in universities networks is a higher priority than at any other time. The purpose of the current research is to study on how social support, psychological adjustments, anxiety, stress and depression, suicide ideation, variables have relationship among university students in Malaysia, by using online computer administration surveys. A total of 415 university students participated. The psychological instruments used for this current study were International Adjustment Disorder Questionnaire (IADQ), Anxiety Scale (AS), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) and Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI). Through statistical analysis, the results indicated that social support has a statistically significant negative relationship (p<.001) with psychological adjustment, stress, anxiety, depression and Suicide ideation. There is also evidence of significant relationship between the variables with suicidal ideation. Overall social support can mediate the level and intensity of suicidal ideation (r = -.579, p<.001). The researcher concluded that this research can contributes to the theoretical understanding of these complex dynamics of the interrelationships of the variables. This research highlight the need of planned services to target the psychological adjustment, anxiety, stress, depression, suicidal ideation and support mechanisms for students good psychological wellbeing.