Anasakti and health: A study of non-attachment - Indian Psychology ...

_’’’of events endorsed constituted SSS. In comparison to the correlationbetween SSS and ADR (r = .22), a higher correlation was obtainedbetween WSS and ADR (r = .46) because both WSS and ADR wererelated to the perception of distress.Anasakti was significantly correlated with WSS and ADR butnot with SSS. This implied that a higher degree of anasakti wasrelated to the perception of lower distress. Compared to the threestress scores, anasakti had the highest correlation with strain.In order to make comparisons between SSS, WSS, ADR andstrain scores of subjects who were high and low on anasakti, criteriongroups of anasakti were identified. Subjects whose anasakti scoreswere below 104 (30th percentile of the frequency distribution ofanasakti scores) were included in the low anasakti group and thosewho had scored above 118 (70th percentile) were included in thehigh anasakti group.’97Significance of Difference between Means ofStress and Strain Scores of Criterion GroupsMeans of SSS, WSS, ADR and strain scores were derived for highand low anasakti groups and significance of difference betweenmeans was tested.Table 2Means of SSS, WSS, ADR and Strain Scores of the Criterion GroupsThe analysis revealed that the two groupswere almost identicalon mean SSS and there was a non-significant difference betweenthe means of WSS of the twogroups in the expected direction.Thus WSS failed to reveal a significant difference probably becauseit was very highly correlated with SSS. The non-significant differenceDownloaded from pds.sagepub.com by Ajit Dalal on April 4, 2011