Self-Concealment and Psychosocial Well-being in Individuals with Epilepsy: The Mediating Role of Relationship Quality

Abstract

The current study aimed at investigating the relationship between self-concealment, quality of relationship, and psychosocial reactions in individuals with epilepsy. Epilepsy is a brain condition associated with persistent and repetitive seizures caused by abnormal neuronal electrical activity. Self-concealment is explained here as the proclivity to deliberately conceal personal information from others due the perceived painful or unfavourable. The sample for the current study was 89 (Men=53, Women=36) with the age range of (17-60) years (M=34.26, SD= 12.00) diagnosed with epilepsy were selected through purposive sampling. The measures for the current study comprised Self-Concealment Scale (Javed & Jabeen, 2018), Quality of Relationship Inventory (QRI, Pierce et al., 1991), and Psychosocial Reactions in Epileptics Scale indigenously developed along with and a demographic Performa. To test main hypotheses correlation and mediation analysis was run. The results found significant negative relationship among the factors of self-concealment, quality of relationship, and psychosocial reactions in people with epilepsy. The results of mediation showed that the conflict in relationship fully mediates in between self-concealment and psychosocial reactions in epileptics. Moreover, self-concealment and psychosocial reactions in epileptics are partially mediated by support and depth in a relationship.