THE POSITION OF STRESS AND EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS IN SOMATIZATION DISORDER

Ugochukwu C. Ogbogu

Abstract


The study was designed to investigate the position of stress and educational success in manifestation of somatic symptoms. Two Hundred and Thirty–Two (232) i.e., 90 postgraduate, 90 undergraduate students and 52 staff volunteered and randomly drawn using accidental random sampling technique from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Igbariam, Anambra State of which 120 were females and 112 males  respectively, participated in the study. Their age ranged between 28–48 years of age with average mean age of 38. Two instruments were used for the study which includes the Enugu Somatization  Scale–Revised (ESS–R) developed by Ebigbo in 1982 which was found to have Cronbach’s coefficient alpha of 0.94 and a split half reliability of 0.82, and the University of Nigeria Stress Scale (UNSS) developed by Onyeizugbo (2007) found also to have a cronbach alpha of r=0.91 and Split half reliability of r = 90,  factor analysis showed that UNSS has only one valid factor, thus the whole 51 items must be used to ascertain a person’s level of stress. The norm for the UNSS is 99, hence scores of 99 and below indicate low stress where as score of 100 and above indicates high stress. A survey design was adopted for the study and 2 x 2 analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used for the data analysis. The result of the study revealed that stress and educational success had a significant effect in the manifestation of somatic symptoms, F(I, 224) = 79.9;P<.001, and F(1,244) = 5.20;P<0.5, respectively. There were no interaction effect between stress and educational success in the manifestation of somatic symptom, F(1, 224) = 48; P>0.5. Discuss of the result together with the recommendation were made.

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Stress, Educational success and Somatization Disorders

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