Open AccessRole of Psychosocial Variables on Lack of Negative Thought of Adolescents with Sickle Cell Anemia (AS) Type
Author(s) -
Deepti Dhurandher,
Bansh Gopal Singh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of indian psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-3429
pISSN - 2348-5396
DOI - 10.25215/0404.020
Subject(s) - psychosocial , sickle cell anemia , analysis of variance , anemia , clinical psychology , social support , psychology , scale (ratio) , medicine , developmental psychology , demography , psychiatry , disease , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , sociology
Purpose of the study was examined the role of psychosocial variables on lack of negative thought of adolescents with sickle cell anemia (AS) type. 200 participants of sickle cell anemia (AS) type were consisted, coming from age group 13 to 18 yrs of Chhattisgarh state. General wellbeing scale and social support scale was applied as a questionnaire for data collection. The result showed that multiple correlation coefficient R was found to be .475 which is significant (F = 32.988, p<.01). Its square is .226 which indicates that significant variables included in the present analysis (i.e. emotional support, informational support and gender) contributed 22.6% variance in lack of negative thought of sickle cell anemic (AS Type) adolescents. It is observed that practical support contributed 14.3% (R2 Change =.143), family income contributed 3.3% (R2 Change =.033), informational support contributed 3.1% (R2 Change =.031), and gender contributed 1.9% (R2 Change =.019) variance of lack of negative thought in the subjects.