E-ISSN : 2733-4538
In this study, 77 schizophrenic inpatients participating in the psychiatric rehabilitation and 52 schizophrenic inpatients were compared concerning on stress, coping, perceiced social support, and self-perception. The result showed that there was not significant difference between two groups in demographic variables such as age, education, the duration and number of hospitalization, marital status, and the severity of symptoms. However, rehabilitation group showed more positive self-perception, less mysterious coping than those of control group. In addition, rehabilitation group showed a tendency to perceive more emotional support from others than that of control group. With regard to the type of perceived stress, there was significant difference between two groups ; most subjects of the rehabilitation group reported 'no stress' or 'difficulty in interpersonal relationship', but control group reported various type of stress such as 'no stress', 'difficulty in interpersonal relationship', 'discharing problem', and 'health problem'. The limitation of this study and the direction of future research were discussed.