TY - JOUR
T1 - Parental rejection and mental health problems in college students
T2 - Mediating role of interpersonal difficulties
AU - Saleem, Sadia
AU - Asghar, Ayesha
AU - Subhan, Sara
AU - Mahmood, Zahid
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, National Institute of Psychology.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - College students are said to have an increasing trend of mental health problems that lead to various negative academic, personal and social outcomes. The current study aimed to determine the mediating role of interpersonal difficulties between parental rejection and mental health problems of college students. A total of 321 college students selected through purposive sampling aged 15to 20 years provided self-report data on EMBU-A (Gerlsma, Arrindell, Van der Veen, & Emmelkamp, 1991), Urdu version of Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS; Aslam, 2007) and Interpersonal Difficulties Scale (IDS; Saleem, Ihsan, & Mahmood, 2014). Pearson Correlation was used to ensure that parental rejection, mental health problems and interpersonal difficulties are related. Results of path analysis revealed that parental rejection has an indirect effect on mental health through interpersonal difficulties. Implications for counselling services are discussed.
AB - College students are said to have an increasing trend of mental health problems that lead to various negative academic, personal and social outcomes. The current study aimed to determine the mediating role of interpersonal difficulties between parental rejection and mental health problems of college students. A total of 321 college students selected through purposive sampling aged 15to 20 years provided self-report data on EMBU-A (Gerlsma, Arrindell, Van der Veen, & Emmelkamp, 1991), Urdu version of Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS; Aslam, 2007) and Interpersonal Difficulties Scale (IDS; Saleem, Ihsan, & Mahmood, 2014). Pearson Correlation was used to ensure that parental rejection, mental health problems and interpersonal difficulties are related. Results of path analysis revealed that parental rejection has an indirect effect on mental health through interpersonal difficulties. Implications for counselling services are discussed.
KW - Interpersonal difficulties and college students
KW - Mental health
KW - Parenting
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U2 - 10.33824/PJPR.2019.34.3.35
DO - 10.33824/PJPR.2019.34.3.35
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075524638
SN - 1016-0604
VL - 34
SP - 639
EP - 653
JO - Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research
JF - Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research
IS - 3
ER -
