Assessment of Psychosocial Functioning of Mothers of Children with Diabetes Mellitus Compared to Mothers of Healthy Children

Table 8

Correlations between sense of coherence and support among the mothers of diabetic children.

Mothers of diabetic children	Sense of being understood		Resourcefulness		Sensibleness		General sense of coherence
	rho	p	rho	P	rho	P	rho	P
Perceived general available support	0.408	<0.001	0.487	<0.001	0.405	0.001	0.463	<0. 001
Perceived available emotional support	0.450	<0.001	0.467	<0.001	0.348	0.006	0.457	<0. 001
Perceived available instrumental support	0.324	0.012	0.453	<0.001	0.400	0.002	0.418	<0.001
Need for support	0.031	0.813	0.110	0.403	0.079	0.548	0.074	0.574
Seeking support	0.240	0.065	0.181	0.167	0.143	0.275	0.206	0.114
Actually received general support	0.358	0.005	0.455	<0.001	0.285	0.027	0.414	0.001
Actually received emotional support	0.305	0.018	0.425	<0.001	0.307	0.017	0.395	0.002
Actually received institutional support	0.344	0.007	0.376	0.003	0.239	0.066	0.341	0.008
Actually received informative support	0.234	0.071	0.292	0.024	0.141	0.281	0.254	0.050
Satisfaction with actually received support	0.415	0.001	0.384	0.002	0.253	0.051	0.410	0.001
Protective buffering support	-0.044	0.737	-0.153	0.244	-0.089	0.497	-0.079	0.549