Emotional Regulation, Decision Making, Self-Determination and Social Adjustment Among Asthma Patients. A Demographical Study

Abstract

Emotional regulation, decision making, self-determination and social-adjustment psychologically-based responses that assist an organism meet challenges and chances, and involve changes in individual experience, behavior, feeling and physiology. The present study was designed to highlight living place difference, marital difference and socio-economic difference among asthma patients on emotional regulation, decision making, self-determination and social-adjustment. For this purpose, data of N= 1000 asthma patients (male n= 500, female n= 500) was taken from different government, private, and semi government hospitals of Punjab Pakistan through purposive sampling. The information was obtained by Urdu version emotional regulation scale (Gratz& Roemer, 2004),decision making scale (Darden & Hall, 1996), self-determination scale (Wehmeyer, 1995) and social adjustment scale (Weissmanz & Bothwell, 1976). After the collection of data, t-test was used to analyze the data. The findings approximately supported the hypotheses. The results particularized that significant difference (**p<.01, ***p<.01) between emotional regulation, decision making, self-determination and social-adjustment in the terms of living place ((rural or urban) and also significant difference (**p<.01, ***p<.01) between emotional regulation, decision making, self-determination and social-adjustment in the term of marital status (married or unmarried) among asthma patients. Furthermore, attained significant difference (**p<.01, ***p<.01) between fourth constructs in the terms of socio economic difference (upper class or poor class) among asthma patients