الإجهاد الأكاديمي والكمالية العصابية وعلاقتهما بالميل للانتحار لدى عينة من طالبات الدراسات العليا بجامعة الملك عبد العزيز بجدة
This study aims to discover the level of neurotic perfectionism, academic stress, and suicidal tendencies among university female graduate students at King Abd-Alaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and to explore the relationship between academic stress and suicidal tendencies, as well as neurotic perfectionism and suicidal tendencies for the same sample. The study also aims at exploring the differences between neurotic perfectionism, academic stress, and suicidal tendencies in respect to variables such as marital status, academic major and economic status for the same sample. The research sample consisted of 103 randomly-selected female graduate students at King Abd-Alaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The researcher used a number of indicators such as “Academic Stress” (Dalia Badawi & Gebreel 2015), “Perfectionism” (Samia Shund 2017), and “Suicidal Ideation” (Albuhiri 2013). The study resulted in a number of findings: there is an average spread in the levels of academic stress, and neurotic perfectionism, and a weak spread in the level of suicidal tendencies in the study sample. Another finding is that there was a statistically significant positive correlation with a significance level of 0.01 between academic stress and all aspects of suicidal tendencies, and statistically significant positive correlation with a significance level of 0.01 between levels of neurotic perfectionism and average level of suicidal tendencies. Also, there were no significant differences between marital status and academic major variables in relation to academic stress, neurotic perfectionism, and suicidal tendencies, while significant differences were found for the variable of economic status in respects to degrees of academic stress, neurotic perfectionism, and suicidal tendencies. The study also concluded by recommending the creation of psychosocial support centers and counselling units within universities to provide protection and support to female students, in addition to educating university professors on the need to recognize the needs of graduate students and their social and psychological issues. (Published abstract)