Personality Social Support And Locus Of Control Among Diabetic Patients

Abstract

Diabetes is the disease which has become common in our life. Some expert also called it a lifestyle illness. Lifestyle is influenced by
number of factors. Present study focused more on psychological aspects of an individual life. Therefore, the current study aimed to
find the association among social support, locus of control & types of personality among diabetic patients. There were total of 319
diabetic patients that have been selected purposively from government hospital of Sawai Madopur District of Rajasthan, India. There
was found highly significant relationship between different level of social support and different types of personality (χ2=53.29, p<0.01)
and no significant relationship (χ2=0.67, p>0.05) between different levels of social support and locus of control. Another finding
suggests no significant relationship (χ2=1.11, p>0.05) between different levels of locus of control and different types of personality.
So, it may be said that type of personality is not independent from social support, but locus of control does. Another result indicated
that locus of control is independent from the types of personality among diabetic patients. Therefore, it may be recommended the
important role of personality and social support in diabetes.