Parikalpana KIIT Journal of Management
  • Year: 2025
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue: 1

Students psychological well- being and suicidal ideation: Exploring mediating and moderating mechanisms

Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University), Jamal Mohamed College, Trichy - 620020, Mobile: 9865656016, Email Id: richfxanwar@gmail.com

Online published on 18 September, 2025.

Abstract

Considering the significance of students’ academic health to suicidal thoughts, this investigation aims to look at resilience’s mediation function between academic stress, non-academic stress, and suicidal ideation, taking into account the moderating effect of coping on students’ academic well-being and resilience connection.

The data were gathered from students studying in the southern part of India using non-convenient sampling. There were 456 answers in all. Using the structural equation modeling method, hypotheses were evaluated and Hayes’s Model 1.

Results indicate that the relationship between students’ academic well-being and resilience is mediated. (academic stress and non-academic stress) and the student’s suicidal ideation. In addition, coping buffers the association between students’ academic well-being (academic stress and non-academic stress) and resilience.

The study’s findings imply that supporting students’ academic well-being could be beneficial to the educational setting. On the other hand, kids may develop negative views regarding their academic performance if measures meant to ensure a stronger coping mechanism are not implemented and suicidal behaviors.

In two respects, the study adds to the body of knowledge already available on students’ academic well-being. Initially, through analyzing academic wellness in terms of academic stress and non-academic stress, welfare with attitudes toward academia and suicidal thoughts and actions.

Keywords

Students’, Well-being, Academic stress, Non-academic stress, Coping, And resilience