*Affiliated-Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Saltanat Bahadur Post Graduate College Badlapur, Jaunpur-222125
Online published on 24 October, 2018.
The study aimed at elucidating the (i) factor structure(s) of the behavioural measures that would be accounted for the social support (number of available support and satisfaction) correlates of ‘mood variation ’(anxiety, depression, somatic concerns and anger hostility), negative affect and positive affect, and depressive symptomatology, and (ii) to check the predictability of various facets of ‘mood variation, ‘ negative affect and positive affect, and depressive symptomatology by the social support factors (number of available support and satisfaction). Factor analysis applied to decompose the coefficient of correlation matrix between the various measures revealed two factors. The first factor consisted of depression (r = 0.874), anger hostility (r = 0.853), anxiety (0.847), somatic concerns (r = 0.821), depressive symptomatology (r = 0.757), negative affect (r = 0.632), and satisfaction factor of social support (r =-0.335) measures; explaining a total of 44.419% of variance. The second factor consisted of the number of available support (r = 0.762) and positive affect (r = 0.767) measures; explaining a total of 14.66% of variance. Taken together, the two factors emerged to explain a total of 59.079% of variance, and that the two factors emerged to be independent (r = 0.183). Moreover, the satisfaction as compared to the number of available support factor of social support emerged as the dominant predictor of the various facets of mood variation, negative affect and positive affect, and depressive symptomatology. The findings have been discussed in the light of the interplay of social support, mood variation, negative affect and positive affect, and depressive symptomatology.
