Madhusree Dasgupta
Ummeed Counselling services, Kolkata
The study was done on Bisexual Cis Indian Women aged 18-28. Bisexual women are a
target of sexualization and harassment. Bi people suffer from bi invisibility and in India,
corrective rape and therapy. To find the relationship between perceived social support
and state and trait anxiety and to add to the existing literature gap on Indian bisexual
women. Data collection was done using snowball sampling method. Google forms were
used. The Perceived Social Support-Family scale and State Trait Anxiety Inventory was
used for measurement. A multiple linear regression and two simple regressions were
conducted and normality of the sample was established. A bi directional predictive
relationship was found between trai-state anxiety and perceived family support. All of
three regression coefficients were significant at a 0.01 level and were below 30% and
indicated an inverse relationship.