Investigation of the Relationship between Psycho-social Factors and Psychological Symptoms by Canonic Correlation Analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships between psycho-social variables and psychological symptoms through canonical correlation analysis, a multivariate analysis technique. Canonical correlation method was used in the analysis of the data. The first set (sex, department preference order, class level, department satisfaction level, university satisfaction level, request to change department, order of birth, accommodation type, previous psychological help, request for psychological help, eating habits, having chronic illness, suicide, having harmful habits) was found to disclose the second set (somatization, obsessive-compulsive disorder, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid thought, psychotic, guilt, insomnia and appetite) at 75%.