Life-Stress Measurement of Cardiac Patient in Dhaka City

By : Md. Shajahan Ali, Asoke Kumar Saha

Page No: 129-138

Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the Life-Stress Measurement of Cardiac Patients and People with cardiac problem in Dhaka City. The purpose is to investigate the relationship of Life-Stress such as in social and psychological dimension. A total of 60 participants participated in the study. The participants were selected from different public hospitals and residence areas of Dhaka city as a purposive manner. Thus, purposive sampling technique was followed for the study. The instruments used in this study were demographic and personal information questionnaire and Bengali version of Life-Stress questionnaire originally developed by Cohen (1999), further it was adapted by Fahim (2001) in Bangladesh. The major hypothesis was that Life-Stress of cardiac patient will be more than people without cardiac problem. Results of correlation analysis shows that Life-Stress is positively correlated with cardiac patients and people without cardiac problem where (r = 0.512, p <.004). The t-test value of the both group shows (t = 3.60, p <.001).

Authors :
Asoke Kumar Saha : D.Phil. Associate Professor & Chairman — Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka- 1100, Bangladesh.
Md. Shajahan Ali : Undergraduate Student — Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka- 1100, Bangladesh.