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| Published: June 30, 2022
Perceived Social Support, Forgiveness, Hope and Quality of Life among Transgenders and Cisgenders
Psychologist, AIWO Wellness Centre, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.146.20221002
DOI: 10.25215/1002.146
ABSTRACT
Living in a homophobic society and with familial rejection have an impact on one’s life. The current study examines the perceived social support, forgiveness, and hope as a predictor of quality of life among transgenders and cisgenders. This study also tries to determine the difference between transgenders and cisgenders with regard to all the four study variables. For the purpose of this research, convenience sampling design was used for cisgenders (N=81) and snowball sampling design for transgenders (N=60). Data was collected using Quality of Life Scale (WHO-QOL), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Zimet et al.), Heartland Forgiveness Scale (Thompson et al.) and Adult Hope Scale (Snyder et al.). Results of Independent sample t-test indicated that there is difference in perceived social support, forgiveness, hope, and quality of life between transgenders and cisgenders. Linear Multiple Regression revealed that the Perceived Social Support, Forgiveness, and Hope predicts the Quality of Life among transgenders and cisgenders. Understanding the magnitude and direction of such differences contributes important implications for both intervention development and decisions regarding the prioritization of mental health programmes within the gender- minority community.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2022, Ramesh S.
Received: March 13, 2022; Revision Received: June 28, 2022; Accepted: June 30, 2022
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.146.20221002
10.25215/1002.146
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