Mood fluctuations and coping pattern among diabetic patients

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Rashmi Shrimali (Amity Institute of Behavioural and Allied Sciences Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan)
Manju Mehta (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

The present study was undertaken to evaluate Mood states and ways of coping among Type 1 diabetic, Type 2 Diabetic and non diabetic patients. A total of 50 type 1 diabetic, 50 type 2 diabetic and 100 non diabetic chronic medical disease patients from the state of Rajasthan served as the sample for the study. Male patients between the age group of 35-55 with minimum education level of graduation belonging to the urban area of Jaipur were selected for the study. To attain the objective of the study, Eight state questionnaires developed by Barton, Cattell and Corher (1972) and the ways of coping scale developed by Folkman and Lazarus (1985) was administered to the sample population to obtain data pertaining to the Mood states and ways of coping. The results of the study revealed that diabetic patients were significantly higher on negative moods in comparison to non diabetic chronic medical disease patients where as non diabetic chronic medical disease patients were high on extraversion and arousal. Among the diabetic patients type 2 diabetic patients were found to be significantly high on negative mood. This research also found out that type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients uses less functional coping pattern in comparison to other chronic medical disease patients.