Open AccessLevel Of Anxiety And Depression Among The Wives Of Drug Abusers
Author(s) -
Shaista Naz,
Faraz Ahmed Wajidi,
Nasir Sulman
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
pakistan journal of gender studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-8886
pISSN - 2072-0394
DOI - 10.46568/pjgs.v7i1.273
Subject(s) - drug abuser , anxiety , depression (economics) , psychology , drug , clinical psychology , psychiatry , economics , macroeconomics
The main objective of the present study is to make a comparative study of the wives of drug abusers, on their anxiety and depression with regard to wives of non-drug abusers. Further an effort was made to study the age, education, social status, employment status, income, status in house, relationship with husband and interest in social activities and the impact of all these variables on the emotional and behavioral patterns of the drug abusers’ wives. The total sample consists of 200 subjects out of whom 100 are wives of drug abusers and 100 are wives of non-drug abusers. The design of the present study is descriptive. The salient findings of the present study may be summarized as the anxiety and depression have been found significantly different between wives of drug abusers and non-drug abusers.