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_’’’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
98/was perhaps a weak pointer towards differences in the manner inwhich these two groups perceived life events. This feature wasbrought out more clearly in ADR which was a purer measure ofthe perception of distress. ADR was significantly lower in the caseof subjects who were high on anasakti compared to those whowere low on it.The capacity of the high anasakt group to cope with stressorsand experience less distress was reflected in the process of somatisationalso. Subjects high on anasakti exhibited fewer symptoms ofstrain compared-to those who were low on anasakti.Identifying Predictors of Strain -{A simultaneous multiple regression analysiswas done to determinethe relative significance of anasakti and stress scores in predictingstrain. Since SSS and WSS were strongly correlated (r=.94) onlyWSS was entered in the regression equation along with ADR and-anasakti.Table 3Multiple Regression Analysis for Total Sample: Anásakti, WSS and ADR asindependent Variables, Strain as Dependent VariableNote ’°‘p
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