The relationship of stigma with life satisfaction and positive/negative affect in patients with type 2 diabetes

Stigma is one of the most important psychosocial consequences in patients with diabetes that affects the lives of these people. The aim of this study was the investigation of the relationship between stigma and life satisfaction, positive/negative affect in patients with type 2 diabetes.

This study was a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of the study included patients with type 2 diabetes who referred to the diabetes clinic of Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah in summer of 2019. 207 people were selected by convenience sampling method and were examined using questionnaires diabetes-related stigma of Brown and colleagues (2016), Life Satisfaction of Dinner, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin (1985) and positive/negative affect scale of Watson, Clark, and Tellegen (1988) and was analysed by Amos 23.

The path analysis showed that the hypothesized model of research is fitted with the experimental data. Pearson’s correlation matrix and path analysis showed that there is a significant relationship between stigma with life satisfaction and positive/negative affect (p<0.01).

Due to the close relationship between physical and psychological factors in diabetes and the effect of psychological factors in improving the disease, it suggests to pay attention to predictions such as stigma.