The Role of Self Stigma towards Psychological Well-Being in Leprosy Patient
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32539/bsm.v5i1.183Keywords:
Self-stigma, Well-being, Psychological Distress, LeprosyAbstract
Introduction. This study aims to determine the role of self-stigma towards
psychological well-being to the people who have had leprosy in South Sumatera. The
study hypothesis that there is a role for self-stigma towards psychological well-being
viewed from psychological distress in people who have had leprosy in South
Sumatera. Methods. The participants of this study were people who have had
leprosy who finished their medical treatment. The research sample was 112 people
who have had leprosy. This study used the consecutive sampling technique.
Psychological well-being and self-stigma were measured by the scale. The research
used simple regression analysis. Results. The result obtained by the value of R=
0.442, R square= 0.178, F= 11.821, and P= 0,000 (p<0,05). It was proved that self-
stigma has a significant role in 17.8% towards psychological well-being. Conclusion.
There is no difference in psychological distress based on the role of self-stigma and
psychological well-being of people who have had leprosy in South Sumatera.
Authors
- Sayang Ajeng Mardhiyah1*
- Muthmainah Muthmainah1
- 1Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sriwijaya, Palembang, Indonesia
Corresponding author Sayang Ajeng Mardhiyah — ajeng_mardhiyah.psi@fk.unsri.ac.id
Article history
- Submitted
- Accepted
- Published
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright and licensing
Copyright in each article remains with the author(s). Authors grant Bioscientia Medicina: Journal of Biomedicine and Translational Research a non-exclusive right of first publication and the right to identify itself as the original publisher. No exclusive transfer of copyright is required.
All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Users may copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material for non-commercial purposes, provided appropriate attribution is given, a link to the license is supplied, changes are indicated, and adaptations are distributed under the same license.
The license applies to the article's scholarly content unless a credit line states otherwise. Third-party material may be subject to separate rights. Authors retain patent, trademark, moral, and research-data rights. The copyright year follows the article's publication date.
