A study of psychophysical health in relation to physical- condition of the respondents

Pages: 115-118
Neeta Gupta, Renuka Joshi and Shribuni Gogoi (Department of Psychology, D.A.V.(P.G.) College, Dehradun)

The present study has tried to explore psychophysical health among Orthopedic, Hypertensive Dermatological and Normal Adults. For this data was collected on 200 respondents; 100 males and 100 females having 50 respondents in each group; Orthopedic, Hypertensive, Dermatological patients and Normal Adults. The design which is used to conceptualize the study is 4×2 factorial design : 4 groups of respondents and Sex of the respondents. Cornell Medical Index constructed by Wig, Pershad and Verma (1998) was utilized to measure the psychophysical health of the respondents. The results of the present study have revealed that; 1.Significant gender differences were obtained only in psychological/emotional health, i.e., females have reported better Psychological Health; 2. Normal Adults have reported best physical and total psychophysical health followed by Orthopedic, Hypertensive and Dermatological patients; 3.Normal females have reported best physical, psychological as well as total psychophysical health than other groups of the respondents.