Investigation of the Relationship between Psycho-social Factors and Psychological Symptoms by Canonic Correlation Analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships between psychosocial variables and psychological manifestations through canonical correlation analysis, a multivariate analysis technique. Analyzes were conducted on the psychosocial variables and psychological symptom levels of the students. Canonical correlation method was used in the analysis of the data. The first set (sex, department preference order, class level, f4 department satisfaction level, university satisfaction level, request to change department, order of birth, form of marriage, previous psychological help, request for psychological help, eating habits, having chronic illness, suicide, having harmful habits) was found to disclose the second set (somatization, obsessive-compulsive disorder, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid thought, psychotic, guilt, insomnia and appetite) at 75%.

Keywords

• Canonical Correlation
• Psycho-social Factors
• Psychological Symptoms

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