An Investigation of the Correlation between Self- Control, Impulsivity and Interpersonal Difficulties among College Students: An Empirical Study

Abstract

A comprehensive study was conducted to explore the relationship among self- control, Impulsivity, and Interpersonal Difficulties among College Students. The rationale behind conducting this research was to explore the role of lack of self-control in creating Interpersonal difficulties among College Students, to find out the relationship between self-control and Impulsivity among college students, and to explore the connection between Impulsivity and interpersonal difficulties among college students. Correlation research design was used, and purposive sampling was used to select a sample of 200 college students (boys and girls). The age range of the students was between 14 to 19 years. Those students who were doing Intermediate and were enrolled in colleges were excluded from the study. The self-control scale (Tangney et al., 2004),Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (Barrat, 1994), and Interpersonal difficulty scale (Saleem et al., 2014)were used with a demographic sheet for data collection. The results of the study claimed that self-control has a significant negative correlation with Impulsivity and interpersonal difficulty. However, interpersonal difficulty had a significant positive correlation with Impulsivity. The results of the study also claimed that lack of self-control and Impulsivity were significant predictors of interpersonal difficulties. The study would be helpful in the future to understand the causes of interpersonal difficulties. It would also create awareness in people about how lack of self-control negatively impacts the students' interpersonal life. Moreover, the study would be very helpful for the clinical purpose as it would give direction to the psychologist and psychotherapists to understand the role of self-control, Impulsivity, and interpersonal difficulty in adolescent students while providing therapy or counseling to students.