Perceived Social Support, Trauma of Discrimination and Psychological Distress Among University Students Living in Hostels

Abstract

This study Perceived social support trauma of discrimination and psychological distress among university students living in hostel . A Co relational study design was employed, and data will be collected from a sample of adults (N = 219) using standardized measures, including the Multidimensional Scale of Perceivedd Social Support (MSPSS) was employed to assess perceivedd social support from family, friends, and significant others, Trauma Symptoms of Discrimination Scale (TSDS) was employed to assess trauma of discrimination related symptoms resulting from experiences of discrimination, Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10)to assess the measure psychological distress by assessing symptoms of anxiety and depression. The descriptive statistic was run to assess mean and SD, frequencies and percentages. The Shapiro Wilk test was run to check skewness of data, Pearson product moment correlation was run to find Perceived social support scale, trauma of discrimination scale and psychological distress scale . Moderation analysis (Baron and Kenny mediation analysis) was performed to find out the Moderation role of Trauma of discrimination between perceived social support and Psychological distress.