The study of correlation between life satisfaction and spiritual well-being in patients with breast cancer

Subject Areas : Educational Science

afsaneh tahedi ¹ , hasan ahadi ² , farah lotsi ³ , rouhalla ahmadzadeh ⁴

1 - دانشجوی دکتری روانشناسی سلامت ،دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد کرج
2 - - استاد روان شناسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد کرج
3 - - استادیار روان شناسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد رودهن
4 - - استادیار، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد کرج

Received: 2015-05-28 Accepted : 2012-12-27 Published : 2012-09-22

Keywords: life satisfaction, breast cancer, spiritual well-being,

Abstract :

Breast cancer is a prevalent disease and the most important source of stress, disability and low life satisfaction in the world. The present research is a co relational model and the aim of that was to study the correlation between life satisfaction and spiritual well-being in patients with breast cancer. Population of this study was all patients who were referred to Shohadaye Tajrish hospital in the first six month of year 1391. The sample was 400 patients who were selected purposefully. Two life satisfaction and spiritual questionnaires were administered. For analyzing data, Correlation method was conducted by spss software. Results showed that there is significant correlation between two variables in patients with breast cancer