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We aimed to establish the effect of the type of diabetes, coping strategies, sex and optimism variables on social networks and perceived social support in patients with diabetes. A sample of 103 males and 197 females, divided into a Type 1 Diabetes group with a mean age of 29 years and a Type 2 Diabetes group with a mean age of 57 years, participated in a transactional design - causal field. A path analysis was run to verify assumed relations. The type of diabetes was found not to affect the perceived social support. Sex did not have a direct influence, although it had through relations mediated by optimism and coping skills variables. These last two determined the social support of the subjects, reason why we recommend building and applying clinical intervention programs teaching people with diabetes the necessary approximation skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between obesity, body image dissatisfaction, teasing perception, and attitude towards physical appearance and the influence of these variables on life satisfaction. Using a non-experimental, cross-sectional design, a path analysis was performed on data from 328 obese patients in Venezuela. The results showed that obesity doesn't predict life satisfaction. This was predicted by teasing perception and body image dissatisfaction. Attitude towards physical appearance has an indirect effect on life satisfaction in obese patient, behaving like mediator variables. The results suggest what makes obese people dissatisfied is an interiorized aesthetic ideal which is unreachable. This is expressed by emotional susceptibility to teasing and dissatisfaction with body image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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