Fear of Abandonment, Psychological Flexibility and Perceived Social Support among caregivers of Dialysis Patients; A Quantitative study

Abstract

This study aims to examine the Fear of Abandonment, Psychological Flexibility and social support among the caregivers of Dialysis Patient. It was hypothesized that there is likely to be a relationship between Fear of Abandonment, Psychological Flexibility and social support among the caregivers of Dialysis Patient. It was also hypothesized that there is likely to be gender difference in Fear of Abandonment, Psychological Flexibility and social support among the caregivers of Dialysis Patient. The sample was comprised of 200 caregivers (Male=120, female=80) of dialysis patients. Purposive sampling technique was used. A cross sectional research design was used. Three scales i.e. Revised Adult Attachment scale (R-AAS) (Hazen & Shaver, 1987), Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire (PFQ) (Ben-Itzhak & Bluvstein, 2014) and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) (Zimet et al., 1988) was used to assess Fear of Abandonment, Psychological Flexibility and social support. The data was analyzed through SPSS (version 25). Descriptive analysis was used to for demographics. In order to study relationship between variables, Pearson product Moment Correlation analysis was used. Independent sample T-test used to analyze the gender difference in study variables. The study shows that the psychological flexibility, fear of abandonment and social support has significant relationship. There is no significant gender difference in Fear of Abandonment, Psychological Flexibility and social support among the caregivers of Dialysis Patient. Keywords: fear of abandonment, psychological flexibility, perceived social support