Lifestyle, Personality Traits and Anger as predictors of Psychosocial problems and Marital Satisfaction of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

The current study's goal was to find out how psychosocial problems are related to anger, personality traits and lifestyle and marital satisfaction in patients with type II diabetes. Purposive sampling technique was used for the selection of 400 type 2 patients of diabetes (30-60 years). Design used in this research was Cross-sectional. Questionnaires used were “Psychosocial problems scale for type II diabetes, Dimensions of Anger Reactions-Revised, Couples Satisfaction Index, Big Five Inventory.” Patient's lifestyles were analyzed by filling out a demographic questionnaire with questions about their “physical activity, smoking, and BMI”. According to the findings, exogenous factors were responsible for 29% of the variation in marital satisfaction and 19% of the variation in psychosocial disorders. Results also suggest that exogenous variables anger, and neuroticism are significantly predicting marital satisfaction and psychosocial problems respectively, which are the endogenous variables, which shows that less anger predicts more marital satisfaction and high neuroticism predicts more psychosocial problems. On the basis of findings, it was concluded that Type 2 diabetic patients who express less anger are more likely to live a satisfied married life. Moreover, that high neuroticism predicts more psychosocial problems.