Relationship between Socio-economic Factors and Adjustment of Women burn Survivors: An Empirical Evidence from Primary Data Analysis

Abstract

The objective of the current study was to find out the predictive relationship between the socioeconomic factors and adjustment problems of women burn survivors. A sample of 200 women burn survivors’ age above 19 were selected from hospitals, NGOs, and community of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Gujrat, Pakistan. The socioeconomic factors were measured by asking information of income, marital status and family system or structure. Further, adjustment was measured with Adjustment Problems Scale for Adults Urdu version. Neural network analysis was used for the analysis of data. The findings of the current study revealed significant predictive relation of socioeconomic factors of income, marital status and family system or structure. The most important predictor of adjustment problems of women burn survivors was family income 0.446 (100%), family system 0.312 (69.9%) and marital status 0.242 (54.2%) respectively. Conclusion: The present study supported the predictive relationship of income, marital status and family system with adjustment problems of women burn survivors. These findings may be helpful to overcome the adjustment issues of women burn survivors.