The Relationship Between Quality Of Life And Self-Care Management : The Mediating Role Of Emotional Distress , And Social Support Among College Students With Type 2 Diabetes

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to test a proposed model for the relationship between quality of life and  Self-care management as mediated by emotional distress , and social support among college students  with type 2 diabetes. This study investigates theoretically proposed relationship between quality of life  and Self-care management as mediated by emotional distress , and social support. This is a quantitative correlational , cross-sectional study investigating the strength and direction of relationships among proposed variables. Participants were 230 males  (77.1%) and 100 females (22.9%).  Bivariate correlations between quality of life  ,Self-care management emotional distress , and social support were presented. The endogenous variable of Self-Management  was found to be significantly and related to exogenous variables of quality of life  and mediator variables of social support and emotional distress . The exogenous variable of Self-Management was also found out to be significantly and positively related to the mediator of social support while negatively related to Diabetes Distress . Besides, the relations among mediators also showed a significant negative relationship between social support  and Diabetes Distress. The results of Path analysis showed that all of the hypothesized relationships are supported by the data. The model fit indices also showed that the proposed model perfectly fits the data obtained in the study. This finding of the study is consistent with many other studies.