A study of trigunas and color preferences among patients of depression and obsessive compulsive disorder

Pages:58-61
Astha Sharma (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Moolchand Hospital, New Delhi)
Vibha Sharma and Tej Bahadur Singh (Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, New Delhi)

The study was undertaken to explore the dominance of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas (Trigunas) and color preferences among patients with depression and obsessive compulsive disorder and in normal population which was exploratory in nature. Sample of 90 subjects was selected, both males and females, between age range of 20-40 years by using purposive technique. 30 patients from each group were selected. Vedic Personality Inventory was used to assess the dominance of gunas and Luscher color test was administered to find out the color preferences. Sattva was the most dominant guna in the normal population. Rajas was the predominant one in both the patient populations. In Colour Preferences, blue was the most preferred colour of the control group and black, the least preferred. In the group consisting of patients suffering from depression, grey was the most preferred choice and yellow and red were the least preferred choices of the group. In the third group which comprised of people suffering from OCD, red was preferred by majority, followed by blue. Black was voted as the least preferred colour followed by yellow. Present piece of research was a small step to explore the Indian methods of diagnosis and intervention with relation to mental health problems and the findings were quite supportive in this regard.