The relationships between stress, resilience and social support in individuals with global high-prevalence diseases such as arterial hypertension (AH) and diabetes mellitus (DM) were studied. One hundred individuals participated in the study— 50 with AH and/or DM (G1) and 50 without these diseases (G2). Informative questionnaires, Lipp’s Stress Symptom Inventory for Adults, the Resilience Scale and the Social Support Scale MOS-SSS were used. The results showed that there are more stressed individuals (p = 0.01) and in more advanced phases of stress (p = 0.016) in G1. There was no significant difference in resilience, nor in the association between stress and resilience among the groups. In G1, there were more individuals above the mean in the domain of the social support material (p = 0.004) and less individuals in the information domain (p = 0.008), especially in the group with stress (p = 0.013). In G1, the association between resilience and information was above average, while stress and social interaction were below average. In G2, there was an association between resilience above average and information below average. It is suggested that stress control can be an important factor in the control of HT and/or DM, as well as information and social interaction as a source of social support.
Keywords:
diabetes mellitus, hypertension, stress, social support, psychological resilience
Novaes Malagris, L. E. (2019). Stress, resilience and social support in individuals with hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Revista De Psicología, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2019.53954
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