Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Urooj-un-nisa ¹, Humera Shafi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psycology, University of Kashmir Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, IN

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Depression and Diabetes, Spiritual Well-Being, Type 2 Diabetes.

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Shams Un Nisa ¹, Humera Shafi ¹, Touseef Rizvi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, IN

Abstract

Child's disability has a profound impact on parent's functioning especially mothers. Mothers are most distressed, and this stress shows itself in the form of depression and other psychological problems and causes mother's function or performance to drop. The present research endeavor was aimed to study the relationship of different stressors with depression among mothers of children with mental retardation. The sample consisted of 38 mothers of mentally retarded children drawn from three institutes of Srinagar city working for these children. The results of the study revealed that there is a significant positive correlation between different stresses (viz. daily care stress, family emotional stress, social stress, and financial stress) and depression.

Keywords

Depression, Mental Retardation, Mothers, Stress.

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