Evaluation of Psychological Symptom Differences Between Disabled and Non-Disabled Individuals

Authors : İlknur UZ, Hüseyin ÜNÜBOL, Gökben HIZLI

Pages : 343-353

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Publication Date : 2023-06-21

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the differences in psychological symptoms between disabled and non-disabled individuals. Material and Method: This paper conducts a multi-facet analysis insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(depression, anxiety, negative self, hostility and somatization); on disabled people for the first time. This study included 24493 people insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(non-disabled=23391, disabled=1102); from 9 demographic regions in Turkey and participants in the study were 18 years or older. Socio-demographic information form and Brief Symptom Inventory insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(BSI); were used as data collection tools. The participants\` scores from the BSI were evaluated according to their disability status for each of the subdimensions of depression, anxiety, negative self, hostility and somatization. Results: When the mean BSI scores of the participants were compared, it was seen that the lowest mean scores in all sub-dimensions belong to non-disabled individuals. When the groups of people with disabilities were compared according to psychological symptoms, there were no differences for the 4 symptoms, whereas the scores of individuals with chronic disease were significantly higher in the somatization sub-dimension than the others. It was observed that hearing impaired individuals had the lowest mean score in anxiety, somatization and hostility sub-dimensions among the groups of disabled individuals. Conclusion: Increasing awareness of disabled people in society and supporting them with psychotherapy methods that will improve the resistance mechanisms and increase adaptation to disability will contribute to social welfare.
Keywords : Engelli, psikolojik belirti, kısa belirti envanteri, kronik hastalık, fiziksel bozukluk