Payame Noor University QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 2322-1283 8 29 2019 06 20 The Relationship between Self-Compassion with Depression in Women with Breast Cancer with Mediation Death Anxiety The Relationship between Self-Compassion with Depression in Women with Breast Cancer with Mediation Death Anxiety 52 67 5854 10.30473/hpj.2019.39663.3959 FA SHEIDA SHARIFI SAKI PhD of psychology Payame Noor University Tehran Ahmad Alipor professor of psychology Payame Noor University Tehran Alireza Aghayuosefi Assistant Professor of psychology Payame Noor University. Mphammad Reza Mohamadi Professor of psychiatry& psychology Research Center Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran. Bagher Ghobari Bonab Professor In Special Education Faculty of psychology& Education Tehran University. Journal Article 2018 06 29 <strong>Objective:</strong> The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-compassion with depression in women with breast cancer with mediator death anxiety. <strong>Method</strong>: This research was a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population included all women with breast cancer referring to hospitals and medical center of Mahdieh, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Firoozgar Hospital and Pars Hospital in 1396. The sample size was 397 people who were selected and responded to Beck Depression Inventory (2001), God Attachment Questionnaire to Rowat and Kirkpatrick (2002) and Templer's Death Anxiety Questionnaire (1979). The data of this study analyzed by structural equation method and using smart PLS software. <strong>Result</strong>: The results showed that the full inflows in the present model are confirmed at a significant level (p> 0/01). These results suggest that both direct paths and indirect paths have a significant effect on depression, but the paths that are more valid to the path of anxiety of death -> depression than other paths. <strong>Conclusion</strong>: In the formation of depression in women with breast cancer, mental and spiritual factors such as self-compassion and death anxiety are involved.Their findings implied the strong relation among spirituality values and psychological constructs. <strong>Objective:</strong> The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-compassion with depression in women with breast cancer with mediator death anxiety. <strong>Method</strong>: This research was a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population included all women with breast cancer referring to hospitals and medical center of Mahdieh, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Firoozgar Hospital and Pars Hospital in 1396. The sample size was 397 people who were selected and responded to Beck Depression Inventory (2001), God Attachment Questionnaire to Rowat and Kirkpatrick (2002) and Templer's Death Anxiety Questionnaire (1979). The data of this study analyzed by structural equation method and using smart PLS software. <strong>Result</strong>: The results showed that the full inflows in the present model are confirmed at a significant level (p> 0/01). These results suggest that both direct paths and indirect paths have a significant effect on depression, but the paths that are more valid to the path of anxiety of death -> depression than other paths. <strong>Conclusion</strong>: In the formation of depression in women with breast cancer, mental and spiritual factors such as self-compassion and death anxiety are involved.Their findings implied the strong relation among spirituality values and psychological constructs. https://hpj.journals.pnu.ac.ir/article_5854_b223bdfc7c679451bb91ad9e21d0ec40.pdf