Perceived Stress among Diabetic and Non-diabetic Adults

Abstract

Psychologists and medical professionals have realized that psychological factors affect all aspects of physical well-being. Diabetes, in particular type-2 diabetes, is one of the most prevalent diseases worldwide, and the management of this disease is important because it affects the lives of 200 million people. The primary purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of diabetes and gender on the status of perceived stress. The study involves quantitative analysis. In the present study, 120 participants were selected purposively from Odisha, India. The study adopts a 2(diabetics versus non-diabetics) × 2 (adult males versus adult females) factorial design. The participants of these four quasi-experimental groups were compared to the dependent measure (perceived stress). 60 diabetics (30 males and 30 females) and 60 non-diabetics (30 males and 30 females) were given the perceived stress measures and the scores were interpreted accordingly. Then the results were analysed and interpreted by using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Diabetic participants reported as much magnitude of perceived stress as do non-diabetic participants. Further, the influence of gender was also found to be significant.