Association between spiritual well-being and depression among adults with Type 2 diabetes

Pages: 969-972
Urooj-un-nisa and Humera Shafi (Department of Psycology, University of Kashmir Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India)

The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between spiritual well-being (SWB) and depression among adults among Type 2 diabetes. The Universe of the Study was based on 430 Type 2 diabetic adults from Endocare: Advanced centre for diabetes and endocrine care. Purposive sampling was carried out to collect the data. SWB scale developed by Paloutzian and Ellison (1982) was used to investigate SWB among Type 2 diabetic adults and Beck’s Depression Inventory-II by Beck et al. (1996) was used to investigate depression among these diabetic adults. The results showed significant negative correlation between SWB and depression among Type 2 diabetic adults. Results also revealed that Type 2 diabetic adults differ significantly on SWB with respect to their gender but regarding rural/urban dichotomy and their educational status, Type 2 diabetic adults didn’t differ significantly. Further results also showed significant differences on depression among Type 2 diabetic adults as far as their gender and educational status is concerned but with respect to rural/urban dichotomy they didn’t differ significantly.