Psychological aspects in health and diseases
mahnaz moghanloo
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Objective: Important factors such as personality type, coping styles, and psychological capital have an effect on the resilience of women with breast cancer. The purpose of the study is to investigate the structural relationship of these factors with each other. Method: The subjects of this study included ...
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Objective: Important factors such as personality type, coping styles, and psychological capital have an effect on the resilience of women with breast cancer. The purpose of the study is to investigate the structural relationship of these factors with each other. Method: The subjects of this study included 231 women (20-55 years old) diagnosed with breast cancer who were treated in the breast cancer department of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran from 2022-2023. The formula proposed by Tebachnik and Fidel (2007) was used to estimate the sample size. Psychological resilience (Connor and Davidson, 2003), NEO-PI personality questionnaire (Costa and McCree, 1992), and Coping strategies questionnaire (Endler and Parker, 1990) were used to measure research variables.Results: The results of structural analysis showed that five personality factors directly explain 0.447 of changes in resilience. Based on the coefficients of 0.974 and 0.207, five indirect personality factors and coping strategies have a 0.21 effect on resilience, and based on the coefficients of 0.914 and 0.365, five indirect personality factors and Psychological capital have a 0.33 effect on resilience. Therefore, five personality factors can lead to an increase in resilience through coping strategies and psychological capital. In addition, the path coefficients about the two-way relationship of the variables showed that 44% of changes in resilience were influenced by personality, 97% of changes in coping strategies were influenced by personality, 91% of changes in psychological capital were influenced by personality, and 20% of changes in resilience were influenced by personality. The effect of coping strategies and 36% of resilience changes was influenced by psychological capital. Conclusion: One of the determining factors of resilience in a chronic disease such as breast cancer is the role of personality traits, which is influenced by positive psychological variables such as coping strategies and psychological capital of the patient
maryam maadi; Abbas Abolghasemi; mosa kafie; seyedeh Hajar Sharami
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Objective: Pelvic inflammatory disease is a chronic disease and a common infection in women which is associated with significant complications. This study aimed to compare cognitive abilities and personality traits in infertile women with and without pelvic inflammatory disease.
Method: The research ...
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Objective: Pelvic inflammatory disease is a chronic disease and a common infection in women which is associated with significant complications. This study aimed to compare cognitive abilities and personality traits in infertile women with and without pelvic inflammatory disease.
Method: The research method was causal-comparative and the sample of research included 48 infertile women with pelvic inflammatory disease and 57 infertile women without the pelvic inflammatory disease, who were referred to Al-Zahra Hospital in Rasht in 2021 and were selected through the convenience sampling method. The research instruments were a demographic checklist, the Cognitive Ability Questionnaire (Nejati, 2013), and the Neo Personality Questionnaire (McCrae & Costa, 1985). Research data were analyzed using the Mann-whitney test and multivariate variance analysis.
Results: The results showed that there was no difference between infertile women with and without pelvic inflammatory disease in cognitive abilities and personality traits (p >0.05). But there was a significant difference between four of the seven components of cognitive ability (memory; P<0.05, U= 899.00, inhibitory control and selective attention; P<0.05, U= 933.00, decision-making; P<0.05, U= 863.500, and sustained attention; P<0.05, U= 924.500), the total score of the cognitive ability variable (P<0.05, U= 815.000), and openness in both upper and lower levels of education (P <0.05, U= 907.50).
Conclusion: Infertility with causes of inflammatory and non-inflammatory did not lead to cognitive dysfunction and differences in personality traits but education as a potentially influential variable can play a crucial role, which needs further research.
Alaleh Attaran khorasani; Mohammad javad Aldaghi; niki darbanbashi khamesi; manizheh maleki; zahra jahani; rahman razavi
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Objective: Treatment adherence, the extent to which patients can follow the agreed recommendations for prescribedtreatments with a healthcare provider, is a key component of chronic disease management. This study aimed atexamining the structural pattern of personality traits of cancer patients on treatment ...
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Objective: Treatment adherence, the extent to which patients can follow the agreed recommendations for prescribedtreatments with a healthcare provider, is a key component of chronic disease management. This study aimed atexamining the structural pattern of personality traits of cancer patients on treatment adherence and cancer coping selfefficacy mediated by social support.Method: The method of the present study was descriptive, and the research design was correlational based on structuralequation modeling. The statistical population included all female patients with breast cancer referred to Shahid RahimiHospital for follow-up treatment, among whom 300 were selected using the convenience sampling method. Then, theycompleted the research questionnaires, including Five Personality Traits, the Self-efficacy for Appropriate MedicineUse Scale, Cancer Behavior Inventory, and Social Support Therapeutic Outcomes Questionnaire. The research datawere analyzed using AMOS statistical software.Results: The results showed a significant relationship between personality traits, adherence to treatment, cancer selfefficacy, and social support. The results of structural equation modeling showed a good fit of the model with theexperimental data, and the general hypothesis of the research was confirmed. Personality traits have a significantpositive effect on adherence to cancer treatment and self-efficacy. Also, personality traits mediated by social supportshowed a negative and significant relationship with adherence to treatment and cancer self-efficacy.Conclusion: This study showed the effective role of social support in the outcome of social and individual measuresto increase adherence to treatment and cancer self-efficacy in patients with breast cancer.
abbas roozbehani; Morteza Tarkhan; Ahmad Alipour; Majid Saffarinia
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Objective: The present study aimed at studying the relationship between job stress and personality features and also if the effect of job stress on personality is moderated by social support.
Method: The research population consisted of offshore personnel working in Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) ...
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Objective: The present study aimed at studying the relationship between job stress and personality features and also if the effect of job stress on personality is moderated by social support.
Method: The research population consisted of offshore personnel working in Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) in Khark Island, among whom 234 participants who were selected through convenience sampling method answered the three questionnaires of job stress, short form of NEO, and perceived social support-family scale. Four main hypotheses were examined through structural equation analysis.
Results: The findings showed a predictive effect of personality traits on job stress, except for openness to experience, in that job stress had an increasing effect on neuroticism and a decreasing effect on extraversion, agreeability, and conscientiousness. Social support, on the other hand, as a moderator, decreased the effect of job stress on personality feature except for openness to experience, extraversion, and agreeability in a way that it decreased neuroticism and increased conscientiousness.
Conclusion: The results generally revealed the predictive effects of job stress on personality features and showed that social support, as a moderator, can reduce the effects of job stress on personality traits. The results were discussed based on the existing models on personality changes.
