Level of frustration tolerance and its relationship with different psychopathologies

ABSTRACT

The present research focuses on the relationship between level of frustration tolerance and different psychopathologies Depression; Somatoform; Anxiety; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Schizophrenia. The research consisted of two stages. At stage one, the Low Frustration Inventory developed by Knaus [1983] was translated and adapted into Urdu language to use it with the Pakistani population. The LFT inventory was administered on a sample of 120 subjects residing in different areas of Lahore city from different socioeconomic strata which included low; middle and high. To find the reliability of LFT inventory, 60 subjects were re-administered the LFT inventory after 15 days. For the validation of the inventory, 120 subjects from the same areas were administered the LFT inventory along-with the Scale of LFT of Symptom Checklist-R [Rahman, Dawood, et al., In Press]. At stage two, the focus was to find the relationship between LFT and different psychopathologies Depression; Somatoform; Anxiety; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Schizophrenia. A sample of 30 subjects from each of the above mentioned pathologies was taken from different psychiatric units of teaching hospitals Sir Ganga Ram; Mayo; Services; Punjab Institute of Mental Health [PIMH], Lahore and Centre for Clinical Psychology, University of the Punjab, Lahore. The psychopathology of each subject was assessed through Symptom Checklist-R and level of frustration tolerance was assessed through LFT inventory originally developed by Knaus in 1983, translated and adapted by Dawood and Rahman to use in present research. The results indicate a positive relationship of low frustration tolerance with each one of the above mentioned psychopathologies