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- Title
Stress, Social Support and Psycho-physiological Health among Wives of Drunkards.
- Authors
Upadhyay, Bal Krishna
- Abstract
The stressful modern lifestyle has acted as the foundation stone impacting the ever increasing consumption of alcohol among mankind in this new millennium. Once considered the drink of west and rich, alcohol has now become a fashion and has entered the life of both middle and poor class of every society around the world. However, devastating effect of the same can also be observed once the occasional drinking becomes a habit. The negative effect has been extensively studied by multidisciplinary researchers and scientists but impact of being spouse of drunkards seems to be scantly reported. With this line of thought, the present study attempted to examine the available social support, psychological and physiological health, and effect of income on the psycho-physiological health of the wives of drunkards. A total of 99 female respondents were contacted to participate in the present study. Adapted version of CMIQ (female version) including the dimensions of Nervous system, Genito-Urinary System, Fatigability, frequency of illness, depression, anxiety, anger, social support, and stress was used to get relevant information pertaining to the present objectives. The one-way ANOVA results revealed the impact of respondent's age on several dimensions of psychological and physical health. Age also revealed significant effect on stress. However, levels of social support- high, moderate and low- was found to be significant on anxiety and anger only. Furthermore, effect of income was also assessed which revealed varying degree of effect on various select dimensions of CMIQ. It was also reported that high perceived support, age and income variable were significantly related to various dimensions of psycho-physiological health of the wives of drunkards. The results have revealed interesting details that have been interpreted and discussed in the light of contemporary literature.
- Subjects
SOCIAL support; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; MENTAL health; PEOPLE with alcoholism; SPOUSES' legal relationship
- Publication
Journal of Psychosocial Research, 2014, Vol 9, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
0973-5410
- Publication type
Article