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mehdi sheikhi; Abolghasem Yaghoobi; Tooraj Sepahvand; reyhane sheykhan
Abstract
Objective: With the global increase in risk factors and the increasing prevalence of the most stressful human disease, cancer, the need to pay attention to the psychological problems and quality of life of these patients is felt more than ever. this study was to create a causal model of the sense of ...
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Objective: With the global increase in risk factors and the increasing prevalence of the most stressful human disease, cancer, the need to pay attention to the psychological problems and quality of life of these patients is felt more than ever. this study was to create a causal model of the sense of coherence based on psychological capital mediated by perfectionism and coherent self-knowledge in cancer patients. And is the proposed theoretical model consistent with the empirical model? Method: This study was descriptive in terms of its fundamental purpose and data collection. Its statistical population was all cancer patients referred to medical centers in Markazi province, from which 200 people were selected purposefully. In order to validate the proposed model and determine the relationship between variables, structural equation modeling and data analysis were also performed using PLS software. One of the most important reasons for using this method is the purposive sampling method in this study. This method does not rely on sample size and the assumption of normality of the population. The measurement tools were Antonovsky's Sense of Coherence Questionnaire (1993), Felt's Identity and Perfectionism Questionnaire (1999), Victim Consciousness Coherence Questionnaire (2008), and Psychological Capital Questionnaire (Luthans 2008). The data analysis method was structural equation modeling with Smart-PLS4 and SPSSv26 software. The bootstrap method was also used to measure the indirect effect. Results: In this study, the direct and causal effect of psychological capital on coherent self-knowledge was positive (β=0.155) and negative perfectionism (β=-0.225) at the P<0.01 level. The direct effect of perfectionism on sense of coherence was negative (β=-0.360) and the effect of coherent self-knowledge on sense of coherence was also positive (β=0.428) at the P<0.01 level. The indirect effect of psychological capital through coherent self-knowledge (0.066) and perfectionism on sense of coherence was also significant (0.08). Conclusion: The model obtained from this study draws the attention of health researchers to the fact that psychological capital is not directly able to predict sense of coherence, but it can be improved by reducing perfectionism or increasing coherent self-knowledge. Since there is not much research on this topic, there are probably many factors that need to be considered in this model. And not all of them can be studied in this model. It should be emphasized that the causality of these relationships, although it seems obvious from a theoretical perspective, requires more longitudinal and experimental designs.
