Page No.154-163
Sushmita Upadhyay
G.D.M. P.G. College, Gorakhpur
This study endeavoured to investigate the role of some p sycho-social factors in
coping with surgery and environmental changes. The present study was carried
out on 75 surgical patients and 75 non-patients group of respondents. The
psychosocial variables were age, education, income of respondents and their future
orientation. Optimism, anxiety and perceived personal control were used in
successful coping with surgical intervention and it was assessed by a negative and
positive indicator of health. Negative indicator was the negative mental state of the
patient after surgery and quality of life after surgery was the positive indicator of
health. Result shows that the psychological variable are negatively correlated with
dependent variable of negative mental state. Anxiety was found to be positively
correlated with negative mental state. On the basis of correlational analysis multiple
regression was also used which shows that future orient ation and optimism of
patients are negatively predicted by negative mantel state of patients but education
was a positive predictor in the non- patient group of respondents. Negative mental
state was positively and significantly predicted by anxiety, whereas perceived
personal control was negatively predicted the criterion variable. The study highlight
the fact that in spite of the environment al change. Which accomp any surgical
intervention like hospital environment physical and psychological constrains etc,
the psychosocial characteristics of future orientation, optimism and personal control
can help people in coping with this environmental change
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