the relations of perceived social support and religious beliefs with the post traumatic growth in cancer patients

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Leila Shamkoeyan ¹ , Farah Lotfi Kashani ² , Shahram Vaziri ³ , Mohammad Esmaeil Akbari ⁴

1 - MA in Clinical Psychology
2 - PhD Islamic Azad University Roudehen Branch
3 - , PhD Islamic Azad University Roudehen Branch
4 - PhD Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science

Received: 2015-05-31 Accepted : 2015-05-31 Published : 2014-03-21

Keywords: perceived social support, post traumatic growth, religious beliefs, cancer,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study was to determine the relation between perceived social support and religious beliefs with post traumatic growth. Ninety five patients referring to Shohadaye-e-Tajrish Hospital of Tehran and Vali-e-Asr Hospital of Zanjan participated in the study. The participants completed the Traumatic Growth Inventory (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996), the Perceived Social Support Scale (Zimet et al., 1988) and the Religious Beliefs Inventory (Vaziri, 2012). The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and regression analysis (simple and multiple). The results indicated that perceived social support and religious beliefs in cancer patients had direct significant relation with post traumatic growth and these two variables jointly explained 13.3 percent of post traumatic growth. The findings suggested the perceived social support and religious beliefs can be used to provide improving plans, promoting mental health, and post traumatic growth.