Effectiveness of Healthy Emotional Expression among Girls and Boys Experiencing Anxiety and Suicide Ideation

Abstract

As we know both genders are different and so are their needs, challenges and phases of lives. Exposure to
both the gender is more or less the same these days as parents wants both their kids to live a similar life. But
with more freedom and liberty comes more sense of responsibility, which is missing in the current generation.
They demand great deal of freedom but do not understand how to utilise it. Teenagers are very fragile and
easily influenced by people around them. Harming oneself and trying to end their lives have become a status
symbol for them. It was found that among 13-15 years of anxiety scores girls tends to display more anxiety
and also greater improvement after the intervention. In 16-18 years of age group anxiety was found to be
high among girls. Whereas the prevalence of suicide ideation was found to more among the boys in both the
age range of 13-15 years and 16-18 years than the girls.