Fereshteh Pourmohseni Koluri; Aida Shojaee; Isa Jafari; Mehri Mowlaie
Abstract
Objective: Leukemia is one of the most common cancers, with high prevalence and has many psychological and social consequences for the patient and various factors contribute to its formation and exacerbation. The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the personality profile, tolerance ...
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Objective: Leukemia is one of the most common cancers, with high prevalence and has many psychological and social consequences for the patient and various factors contribute to its formation and exacerbation. The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the personality profile, tolerance for ambiguity and religious coping in patients with leukemia and healthy people. Method: The method of this study was casual-comparison. The statistical population included all patients with leukemia who were admitted to Valiasr, Shams, Shahriar and Shahid Ghazi hospitals in Tabriz. The sample consisted of two groups of 50 patients and their caregivers who were selected by available sampling method. In terms of age, sex and educational levels, they were matched together. Neo-PI (Mccrae and costa, 1985), tolerance for ambiguity (McLin, 1993) and religious coping (Pargament, 2000) scales were used to collect the data. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). Findings: The results of data analysis showed that there is a significant difference between personality profile, tolerance of ambiguity and religious coping among people with leukemia and healthy people.The results showed that patients with leukemia had higher scores than healthy people in neuroticism,lower tolerance for ambiguity, negativere ligious coping, and also healthy subjects in the variables of extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness, Positive religious coping scores and high tolerance for ambiguity were higher than those with leukemia (P<0/01). Conclusion: According to the results of the present research, it can be concluded that some personality traits and adaptive and maladaptive religious copings can affect the symptoms of the disease and its effective coping and help clinicians to develop therapeutic interventions to helpt these patients more effectively
