Perceived Social Support and Personality Styles as the Predictor of Depression, Anxiety and Stress with Resilience as a Mediator among Orphan Adolescents
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2017
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University of Management & Technology
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The study aimed to explore the mediating role of resilience between perceived social support, personality styles, depression, anxiety and stress among orphan adolescents. It also aimed to find gender differences in terms of depression, anxiety and stress. Data was collected through purposive sampling and a sample of 200 orphan children was collected (girls=100 and boys=100) from different orphanages of Lahore and Sialkot. The research design was correlational cross-sectional. Data was collected through Multi-Dimensional Perceived Social Support (MPSS) by Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley (1988), Big Five-44 (BF-44) (John O. P & Srivastava, 1999), State Trait Resilience Inventory (STRI) (Hiew, 1998) and Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS-21) (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995). The data was analyzed through pearson product- moment, independent sample t-test and path analysis (Structural Equational Modeling). The current study revealed that there was no significant relationship between extraversion personality, depression, anxiety and stress. This indicates that introverted personality was prone to anxiety, stress and depression. Resilience played a mediating role between perceived social support of friends, significant others as well as depression, anxiety and stress. Also, no gender differences in depression, anxiety and stress were found. This could indicate that both male and female undergo through the same severity of depression ,anxiety or stress.
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Ms. Sara Kanwal
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Orphans, personality styles, anxiety, depression, stress, resilience, perceived social support, BS