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Perceived social support and life satisfaction in persons with somatization disorder
BACKGROUND: Life satisfaction and perceived social support been shown to improve the well-being of a person and also affect the outcome of treatment in somatization disorder. The phenomenon of somatization was explored in relation to the perceived social support and life satisfaction. AIM: This stud...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237127/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22174534 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.90342 |
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author | Ali, Arif Deuri, S. P. Deuri, S. K. Jahan, Masroor Singh, Amool R. Verma, A. N. |
author_facet | Ali, Arif Deuri, S. P. Deuri, S. K. Jahan, Masroor Singh, Amool R. Verma, A. N. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Life satisfaction and perceived social support been shown to improve the well-being of a person and also affect the outcome of treatment in somatization disorder. The phenomenon of somatization was explored in relation to the perceived social support and life satisfaction. AIM: This study aimed at investigating perceived social support and life satisfaction in people with somatization disorder. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was conducted on persons having somatization disorder attending the outpatient unit of LGB Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur, Assam. Satisfaction with life scale and multidimensional scale of perceived social support were used to assess life satisfaction and perceived social support respectively. RESULTS: Women reported more somatic symptoms than men. Family perceived social support was high in the patient in comparison to significant others’ perceived social support and friends’ perceived social support. Perceived social support showed that a significant positive correlation was found with life satisfaction. CONCLUSION: Poor social support and low life satisfaction might be a stress response with regard to increased distress severity and psychosocial stressors rather than a cultural response to express psychological problems in somatic terms. |
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spelling | pubmed-32371272011-12-15 Perceived social support and life satisfaction in persons with somatization disorder Ali, Arif Deuri, S. P. Deuri, S. K. Jahan, Masroor Singh, Amool R. Verma, A. N. Ind Psychiatry J Original Article BACKGROUND: Life satisfaction and perceived social support been shown to improve the well-being of a person and also affect the outcome of treatment in somatization disorder. The phenomenon of somatization was explored in relation to the perceived social support and life satisfaction. AIM: This study aimed at investigating perceived social support and life satisfaction in people with somatization disorder. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was conducted on persons having somatization disorder attending the outpatient unit of LGB Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur, Assam. Satisfaction with life scale and multidimensional scale of perceived social support were used to assess life satisfaction and perceived social support respectively. RESULTS: Women reported more somatic symptoms than men. Family perceived social support was high in the patient in comparison to significant others’ perceived social support and friends’ perceived social support. Perceived social support showed that a significant positive correlation was found with life satisfaction. CONCLUSION: Poor social support and low life satisfaction might be a stress response with regard to increased distress severity and psychosocial stressors rather than a cultural response to express psychological problems in somatic terms. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3237127/ /pubmed/22174534 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.90342 Text en Copyright: © Industrial Psychiatry Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Ali, Arif Deuri, S. P. Deuri, S. K. Jahan, Masroor Singh, Amool R. Verma, A. N. Perceived social support and life satisfaction in persons with somatization disorder |
title | Perceived social support and life satisfaction in persons with somatization disorder |
title_full | Perceived social support and life satisfaction in persons with somatization disorder |
title_fullStr | Perceived social support and life satisfaction in persons with somatization disorder |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceived social support and life satisfaction in persons with somatization disorder |
title_short | Perceived social support and life satisfaction in persons with somatization disorder |
title_sort | perceived social support and life satisfaction in persons with somatization disorder |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237127/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22174534 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.90342 |
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