Elmira Majedi; Mahdieh Salehi; amin rafiepoor; Afsaneh Ghnbaripanah
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Objective: Researchers have considered the components of positive psychology as predictors of psychological well-being. This study aimed to investigate the psychological well-being model based on rumination and the meaning of life with the mediating role of post-traumatic growth and resilience in cancer ...
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Objective: Researchers have considered the components of positive psychology as predictors of psychological well-being. This study aimed to investigate the psychological well-being model based on rumination and the meaning of life with the mediating role of post-traumatic growth and resilience in cancer patients.
Method: The present study was conducted by correlation method and structural equation modeling. The statistical population consisted of all the cancer patients referred to hospitals in Tehran in 2020, among whom 300 individuals (218 women and 82 men) were selected by purposive sampling. Participants received psychological well-being questionnaires, rumination-reflection, the meaning of life, post-traumatic growth, and resilience.
Results: Findings demonstrated that this model fits well in cancer patients, and the relationship between mediating variables with endogenous and exogenous variables was significant (df2c =2.14, GFI=0.92, and CFI= 0.93 and RMSEA =0.05, P=0.01). The variables studied by the model explained 51% of the psychological well-being variance in these patients. Conclusion: The Psychological well-being of cancer patients is affected by variables related to positive psychology such as the meaning of life, post-traumatic growth, and resilience. Rumination, if leading to meaning-making and post-traumatic growth, can potentially positively affect psychological well-being.
fatemeh Fazeli sani; Mahdieh Salehi; amin rafiepoor; Javad Khalatbari
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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy and cognitivebehavioral therapy on pain coping strategies and pain catastrophizing in patients with pain disorder.Method: The research method was a quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design and a control ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy and cognitivebehavioral therapy on pain coping strategies and pain catastrophizing in patients with pain disorder.Method: The research method was a quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design and a control group and a twomonth follow-up. The statistical population of the study included all women with psychosomatic problems and painwho referred to Manoushan and Behsa counseling centers in Tehran. The sample size included 60 patients (three groupsof 20). The research instruments included the Rosenstileand Keefe (1983) Pain Coping Strategies Questionnaire andthe Bishop and Pivik (1995) Pain CatastropheScale. The emotion-focused experimental group received 12 trainingsessions and the cognitive-behavioral experimental group received 10 sessions training, but the control group did notreceive any intervention during the study.Results: The results of mixed variance analysis and Benferroni pairwise comparison test showed that both emotionfocused therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy have significant impact on the components of pain reinterpretation,pain catastrophizing, behavioral activity, and coping efficiency (P <0.05), but they do not have significant effect onthe components of return attention, ignoring pain, prayer and hope, and self-talking (P <0.05). The results also showedthat both treatments have significant effect on pain catastrophizing (P<0.05). Also, no significant difference wasobserved between the two experimental groups (P <0.05).Conclusion: Therefore, the results of the present study show that emotion-focused therapy, like cognitive-behavioraltherapy, can be used for patients with pain disorders and improve their cognitive factors.
