Factors affecting willingness to help a suicidal peer in two levels of closeness – friends and acquaintances.

• Main Author: Sharifah Nur Syed Aidrus Alhadad.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44305
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The study evaluates the effect of empathic concern and perceived controllability, on willingness to help a suicidal individual in 2 separate contexts of closeness – 'friends' and 'acquaintances'. Survey data were collected from 100 undergraduates, aged 19 to 26, from a university...