A study of psychological factor discriminating diabetic and non-diabetic patients

Pages: 881-884
Mahendra Kumar and Priyamvada Shrivastava (School of Studies in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh)

Several types of earlier empirical evidences indicated, positive relationship between psychosocial risk factor (i.e., stress, anxiety, depression, etc.) and life style diseases. The main objective of the research undertaken is, whether personality type and anxiety contribute in discriminating for diabetic and non diabetic population group. Present empirical piece of research is to examine the role of state, trait anxiety and personality type (extraversion & neuroticism) in discriminating diabetic and non diabetic population group of respondents. Following the incidental cum random sampling technique 50 participants (50 % diabetic suffering from diabetes type-2 clinically diagnosed & 50 % non diabetic) within the age range of 50 to 60 years were drawn from Raipur, to serve as participants in the present research work. Anxiety was measured by State- Trait Anxiety Inventory and Personality traits were measured by Maudsly Personality Inventory. Discriminant analysis was used with the help of SPSS 16.0 version software, for the data analysis. The results indicated that, state anxiety, trait anxiety, and neuroticism personality type are important significant discriminating predictors and are the risk factors in development of diabetes type 2 there is positive association of state trait anxiety, neuroticism personality type with diabetic patient group.