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    Psychosocial issues, cognitive appraisals, coping strategies and quality of life in females with hirsutism
    (UMT Lahore, 2024) AROOB SOHAIL
    The study aims to investigate Psycho-social Issues, Cognitive Appraisal, Coping Styles and Quality of Life in Females with Hirsutism that females with hirsutism suffer what cognitive appraisal, and coping strategies could be, and how they help in the lifestyle or quality of life of hirsute females. According to the hypothesis, there is likely to be a positive relationship between psycho-social issues, cognitive appraisals, coping strategies, and quality of life in females with hirsutism. Psycho-social issues, cognitive appraisals, and coping strategies, likely to predict quality of life in females with hirsutism. Coping strategies will likely to mediate the relationship between psycho-social issues, cognitive appraisal and quality of life in females with hirsutism. Quantitative research was used in this research. The data was collected from females with hirsutism who were seeking laser treatments from laser/ aesthetic clinics. All females who suffered from hirsutism were a part of this research. Ferriman Gallwey score, Psycho-social Issues of Hirsute Women Scale (PIHWS,2019) (2 subscales), Cognitive Appraisal of Health Scale-Revised (CAHS-R, 1998) translated by Sohail & Tariq,2024(2-subscales), Coping Strategies Scale for Hirsute Women (CSSHW, 2019)(2 subscales) and Quality of Life Enjoyment & Satisfaction-Short form (2011) translated by Sohail & Tariq,2024 were the scales used in this research. Reliability, correlation, regression, ANOVA, t-tests and mediation analysis were conducted. Results revealed that there were no significant differences found. Correlation revealed that there was a negative relationship of Quality of life with past emotions, harm loss and emotional focus coping. Ferriman- Gallwey screening tool negatively significant with psychological burden, social withdrawal, emotional focus coping, problem focus coping and quality of life. Quality of life is positively significant with psychological burden, social withdrawal, problem solving and problem focus coping. Harm loss is a negatively significant predictor of quality of life. Whereas problem solving is a xxiv positively significant predictor of quality of life. Mediation Analysis shows that there is a partial mediation between the studied variables. Future theories for diagnosing it include taking into account the distress brought on by excessive hair growth and using artificial intelligence.