Vulnerability to depression in mother of emotionally and physically handicapped children from different socio-economic status

In the present study, it was hypothesized that mothers of emotionally and physically handicapped children from lower socio-economic status will be more vulnerable to depression as compared to the mothers from upper socioeconomic status. In order to test these hypotheses the Beck Depression Inventory [BDI] was given to 300 mothers. Sample was divided into 3 groups, 100 mothers of emotionally handicapped children, 100 mothers of physically handicapped children and 100 mothers of healthy children. Z-test was applied in order to get statistical significance of the results. The results of the present study show that the mothers of emotionally and physically handicapped children from lower economic status were more depressed than the mothers of emotionally and physically handicapped children from upper status

Loss and physiological changes as a concomitant of anxiety

In the present research it was demonstrated that the loss of the mother in early childhood has its Physiological reaction in later life. It was hypothesized that the mean GSR of the LOSS GROUP, will be more as compared to the NO LOSS GROUP, under the stressful situation of loss of support, but the mean GSR of the two groups will not differ under the stressful situation of no. loss of support. Further more it was hypothesized that the mean GSR of the LOSS GROUP will be more under the stressful situation of loss of support as compared to the stressful situation situation of no. loss of support, but the mean GSR of the NO LOSS GROUP will not differ under the above mentioned situation. In order to test these hypotheses thirty male and thirty female students were tested with GSR as a physiological measure of anxiety, before and after the subjects listened to the audio tape recordings of a story of a stressful situation of loss of support and a story of a stressful situation of no loss of support. The [t] test was applied in order to inquire into the statistical significance of the results. The results were found in the expected direction