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Mohammad Reza Tamannaifar; Azam Mansourinik; Shiva Ahmadpoursamani
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Objectives: Quality of life in patients with heart failure can be affected by several factors. The present study aimed to examine the relationship between personality traits and quality of life in heart failure patients mediated by self-care behaviors. Method: This study is a structural equation modeling. ...
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Objectives: Quality of life in patients with heart failure can be affected by several factors. The present study aimed to examine the relationship between personality traits and quality of life in heart failure patients mediated by self-care behaviors. Method: This study is a structural equation modeling. Among the heart failure patients referred to Tehran Heart Hospitals, 300 patients referred to Jam Hospital and Bustan Cardiovascular Clinic were recruited through convenient sampling. In order to collect information, NEO-FFI (Costa & McCrae, 1992), MOS (Ware & Sherbourne, 1992) and EHFSCB (Jarsma et al., 2003) were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS 24 software. Results: The results of correlation coefficients showed that there are significant negative correlation between the personality traits of neuroticism and agreeableness with quality of life, while there are significant positive correlation between extroversion and quality of life (P<0.01). Also, there are significant negative correlation between self-care behaviors and quality of life (P<0.01). According to the results the proposed model has a good fit (x2/df=2.786, p<0.001, CFI= 0.92, RMSEA=0.07). In addition, the direct effect of neuroticism, extroversion and agreeableness on quality of life is significant (P<0.01). When self-care behaviors are included as mediators in the relationship between personality traits and quality of life, the indirect effect of neuroticism and conscientiousness on quality of life is 0.09 and 0.049 respectively, and these indirect effects are significant (P<0.01). Therefore, self-care behaviors mediate the relationship between personality traits of neuroticism and conscientiousness with quality of life.Conclusion: These results have important implications for clinical practice and research in the field of cardiac health psychology and indicate the need to develop approaches and better management of these patients in self- care behaviors. Considering the widespread prevalence of heart diseases as a chronic disease and the high costs of treatment, the results of this research have many practical implications for health psychologists, doctors and nurses. Interventions aimed at changing personality characteristics (especially reducing neuroticism and increasing conscientiousness) in order to improve the quality of life of heart patients is a complex and time-consuming task. Therefore, one of the effective interventions to increase these patients’ quality of life can be focusing on increasing self-care behaviors. Hence, educating patients about the importance of this issue can play an important role in improving these patients’ quality of life.
Fazlollah Mirdrikvand
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Objective: The clinical course and sensory or emotional aspects of perceived pain are influenced by psychological and social factors. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the structural model of pain perception in patients with refractory joint pain based on personality traits and early ...
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Objective: The clinical course and sensory or emotional aspects of perceived pain are influenced by psychological and social factors. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the structural model of pain perception in patients with refractory joint pain based on personality traits and early maladaptive schemas with a moderating role of social support. Method: In this descriptive-correlational study, 371 patients with chronic joint pain were selected by convenience sampling method and they answered self-reportedly to the NE0 Five-Factor Inventory of Costa & McCrae (NEO-FFI), Young Schema Questionnaire - Short Form (YSQ-SF), The MOS Social Support Survey of Sherbourne & Stewart (MOS-SSS) and Short‑Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF‑MPQ). Data analysis was performed by path analysis method with using SPSS version 20 and Smart-PLS version 3. Results: The results indicated a significant inverse correlation between the extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness personality traits and all components of social support; and there was a significant positive correlation between the neuroticism personality trait and early maladaptive schemas with pain perception in patients with refractory chronic joint pain. Also, the moderating effect of social support was significant in path analysis of the relationship between the latent variables of the model. Conclusion: Physicians and mental health professionals can use these results for therapeutic purposes and to prevent the negative emotional state of patients with chronic pain in clinical and non-clinical decisions.
afsaneh moradi; Samireh Karimi; elham hessami; Saeid Mozafari
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Objective: During the outbreak of coronavirus, nurses and staff in Covid-19-related departments, which are at the forefront of the fight against pandemics, were exposed to a wide range of psychosocial stressors. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of five personality factors in ...
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Objective: During the outbreak of coronavirus, nurses and staff in Covid-19-related departments, which are at the forefront of the fight against pandemics, were exposed to a wide range of psychosocial stressors. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of five personality factors in the relationship between perceived vulnerability to the disease and the experience of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among health-care providers for patient with Covid-19. Method: The present study is a descriptive-correlational applied research. The study population consisted of the treatment staff of patients with Covid-19 working in hospitals in Tehran in June and July 2021, from which 677 people were selected as an available sample. The research instruments include a short form of NEO Personality Five-Factor Questionnaire, Mississippi Traumatic Stress Disorder Citizenship Scale, and Perceived Vulnerability Questionnaire was completed online by care staff. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation method and structural equation analysis using Amos and SPSS software. Findings: The results indicate that the indirect effect of perceived vulnerability on the experience of PTSD symptoms is mediated by neuroticism and agreeableness. Conclusion: Screening and identifying people with high neuroticism traits and low agreeableness in the treatment staff and considering interventions to modify these personality traits can be effective in preventing PTSD.
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Elahe Aslami; Akram Malekzadeh; Fahime Rajabi
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive role of personality traits, mindfulness and gender role attitudes on the post-traumatic growth of infertile women in Ahvaz. Method: The research was a correlational study and the statistical population was all infertile women in Ahvaz ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive role of personality traits, mindfulness and gender role attitudes on the post-traumatic growth of infertile women in Ahvaz. Method: The research was a correlational study and the statistical population was all infertile women in Ahvaz who referred to the obstetrics and gynecology clinics of this city in 1400. The sample was 150 infertile women who were selected by available sampling method. The five-factor short form personality questionnaire of NEO (1992), Bem Gender Role questionnaire (1976), Baer et al (2006) Mindfulness questionnaire and Tedeschi and Calhoun (1996) post-traumatic growth questionnaire were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS 22 software. Findings: The results of multiple regression analysis test showed that the neuroticism component was negative and the extroversion, agreeableness components and Mindfulness were positive and significant in predicting post-traumatic growth. In addition, the results of one-way analysis of variance test showed that women with an androgynous gender role attitude had the highest post-traumatic growth and women with a female gender role attitude had the lowest growth. Conclusion: The traumatic experience of infertility can be turned into a growth experience by training of mindfulness and reducing the attitude of the traditional female gender role.
Zahra Ayoubi; Hamid Reza Imani Far; elahe aslami
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Objective: corona heart disease started in 2019 and the most effective way to prevent its spread is to follow health protocols. Therefore, the present study aimed to provide a causal model of personality traits on the observance of corona coping protocols, the mediating role of practice of religious ...
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Objective: corona heart disease started in 2019 and the most effective way to prevent its spread is to follow health protocols. Therefore, the present study aimed to provide a causal model of personality traits on the observance of corona coping protocols, the mediating role of practice of religious beliefs and threat assessment. Method: In this descriptive-correlational study, 353 female high school students in the first district of Shiraz were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Then, using Neo personality questionnaires, temple religious beliefs, observance of health protocols and researcher-made threat assessment, data were collected and analyzed using AMOS software version 21 and path analysis method. Findings: The results showed that the variables of threat assessment, practice of religious beliefs and conscientiousness component had a direct and significant effect on compliance with health protocols. Also, being conscientious and agreeing through the practice of religious beliefs has a positive and indirect effect on the observance of protocols, but openness to experience a negative and indirect effect. (P≤0 / 01). Conclusion: The characteristics of the fitted model predicted the observance of health protocols, based on the exogenous variables of personality, conscience, religion, and threat perception. This fit of the model was also confirmed for the exogenous variables of personality, conscience, agreement and openness to experience, and the mediating variable of practice of religious beliefs.
leila razi; daruosh jalali
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Objective: Disease perception, which plays an important role in the treatment process and following health instructions, is influenced by various psychological factors.. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of coping strategies in the relationship between personality traits and ...
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Objective: Disease perception, which plays an important role in the treatment process and following health instructions, is influenced by various psychological factors.. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of coping strategies in the relationship between personality traits and family functioning with perception of the disease in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Method: The method of this study was descriptive with a correlational design based on path analysis and statistical population of all patients with with multiple sclerosis disease referred to the offices of neurologists and Kashani Hospital in Shahrekord in 2020, from which 250 people were selected by purposive sampling method. Data collection tools included Bradbent et al.'s Awareness Questionnaire, Neo Personality Traits Questionnaire, Bishop and Baldwin Family Performance Scale, and Lazarus and Folkman Coping Strategies Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS-24 and Amos-19 software and path analysis. Findings: The results showed that the research model has a good fit. The results also showed that coping strategies in the relationship between neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreement, Openness, extroversion and family functioning play a mediating role in the perception of the disease. Conclusion: Family performance and personality traits can lead to a better perception of the disease for the individual with positive effects on the adoption of effective coping strategies.
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Reza Bagherian; Gholam Reza Kheirabadi; Mohammad Reza Maracy; Sara Ghaneeian
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Objective: Appropriate self-care is the base of treatment in hemodialysis patients. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between psychological factors (personality traits, anxiety, depression and stress) and the self- care of hemodialysis patient. Method: In a cross-sectional study ...
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Objective: Appropriate self-care is the base of treatment in hemodialysis patients. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between psychological factors (personality traits, anxiety, depression and stress) and the self- care of hemodialysis patient. Method: In a cross-sectional study 125 patients under chronic hemodialysis admitted to Al-Zahra and Noor hospitals of Isfahan city in 2012 were enrolled to the study with regard to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data collection tools were including three questionnaires (the five-factor personality inventory (Neo Big-5), Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) and Hemodialysis Self-care checklist that after the choice of samples were given to complete. the data was analyzed by multivariate regression model. Findings: Depression and conscientiousness are significantly correlated with self-care in hemodialysis patients. There is an inverse correlation between self-care and depression and a direct correlation between conscientiousness with self-care. Conclusion: It seems that pay attention to psychological factors are required in practice with hemodialysis patients.
Alireza Aghayousefi; Maryam Zare; Hosein Zare; Farhad Shaghaghi; Mohamad Eftekhari
Volume 5, Issue 18 , July 2016, , Pages 52-68
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Objective: Knowing about cognitive dissonance aspects and psychological components will be helpful not only in psychological field but also in commercial and political areas. Therefore the aim of this study was evaluation of relation between personality and physiological components of cognitive dissonance. ...
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Objective: Knowing about cognitive dissonance aspects and psychological components will be helpful not only in psychological field but also in commercial and political areas. Therefore the aim of this study was evaluation of relation between personality and physiological components of cognitive dissonance. Method: 130 students of Elmi-Karbordi University of Safadasht were invited and they were asked to complete Gray-Wilson Personality Questionnaire. Before and after distributing those questionnaires, their physiological conditions were receded. Cognitive dissonance was induced by writing about reducing amount of budget which deserved to orphans and rating the reduction of interest of lovely and popular character that ignore his or her fans. Data analysis conducted through correlation and regression analysis. Results: increasing in Flight and Approach scores was related to decreasing cognitive dissonance scores and increasing in Fight, Extinction and active avoidance was related to increasing cognitive dissonance scores. Also personality factors were able to predict physiological changes due to cognitive dissonance. Conclusion: personality traits are related to cognitive dissonance and its physiological components.
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Volume 2, Issue 8 , June 2013, , Pages 40-49
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Objective: The aim of study was to assess the relationship between pain coping strategies and personality traits in substance abusers.
Methods: 85 addicted were randomly selected during three months and Rosenstein & Keefe's Pain Coping Strategies Questionnaire (PCSQ) and McCare & Costa´s ...
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Objective: The aim of study was to assess the relationship between pain coping strategies and personality traits in substance abusers.
Methods: 85 addicted were randomly selected during three months and Rosenstein & Keefe's Pain Coping Strategies Questionnaire (PCSQ) and McCare & Costa´s NEO PI-R inventory were administered on them.
Results: Finding showed addicts got more scores in neuroticism personality traits and disastrous thought pain coping strategies. Also correlation analysis showed that there are positive significant relationship between neuroticism and disastrous thought, negative significant relationship between agreeableness and disastrous thought, negative significant relationship between neuroticism and diverting attention, positive significant relationship between extroversion and conscientiousness with diverting attention.
Conclusions: With regard to findings it is recommended that in drug treatment, for changing the attitudes and thinking in addicts, psychologists can apply psychological treatments specially cognitive-behavior therapy to reduce bad and abnormal thinking level about pain so that the length during of treatment decline and as a results reduce the personality problems that is related with addiction before and in during of drug treatment.
