Open AccessEmotional Regulation, Decision Making, Self-Determination and Social Adjustment Among Asthma Patients. A Demographical Study
Author(s) -
Mazhar Iqbal Bhatti,
M Imran Haider Zaidi,
Khalid Mahmood
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of peace, development and communication
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-7901
pISSN - 2663-7898
DOI - 10.36968/jpdc-v05-i01-06
Subject(s) - feeling , socioeconomic status , marital status , psychology , scale (ratio) , social class , nonprobability sampling , significant difference , asthma , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , demography , social psychology , medicine , sociology , geography , political science , population , cartography , law
Emotional regulation, decision making, self-determination and social-adjustmentpsychologically-based responses that assist an organism meet challenges and chances, andinvolve changes in individual experience, behavior, feeling and physiology. The presentstudy was designed to highlight living place difference, marital difference and socioeconomic difference among asthma patients on emotional regulation, decision making, selfdetermination and social-adjustment. For this purpose, data of N= 1000 asthma patients (malen= 500, female n= 500) was taken from different government, private, and semi governmenthospitals of Punjab Pakistan through purposive sampling. The information was obtained byUrdu version emotional regulation scale (Gratz& Roemer, 2004),decision making scale(Darden & Hall, 1996), self-determination scale (Wehmeyer, 1995) and social adjustmentscale (Weissmanz & Bothwell, 1976). After the collection of data, t-test was used to analyzethe data. The findings approximately supported the hypotheses. The results particularized thatsignificant difference (**p<.01, ***p<.01) between emotional regulation, decision making,self-determination and social-adjustment in the terms of living place ((rural or urban) andalso significant difference (**p<.01, ***p<.01) between emotional regulation, decisionmaking, self-determination and social-adjustment in the term of marital status (married orunmarried) among asthma patients. Furthermore, attained significant difference (**p<.01,***p<.01) between fourth constructs in the terms of socio economic difference (upper classor poor class) among asthma patients