Perceived Stress and Emotional Well-Being: The mediating role of Religious coping among Cancer Patients

This study examined the mediating role of religious coping on the relationship between perceived stress and emotional well-being among cancer patients. On a sample consisting of ۱۵۵ cancer patients were administrated the Brief Religious Coping Scale (Pargament, Koenig & Perez, ۲۰۰۰), the Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen, Kamarck & Mermelstein, ۱۹۸۳) and the positive affect and negative affect schedule (Watson, Clark & Tellegen, ۱۹۸۸). Structural equation modeling was used to assess the mediating role of religious coping on the relationship between perceived stress and emotional well-being among cancer patients. Results indicated that there is a significant positive correlation between perceived self-efficacy with positive religious coping, significant positive correlation between perceived helplessness with negative religious coping, significant positive correlation between perceived self-efficacy with positive affect and a significant positive correlation between perceived helplessness with negative affect. Results also indicated that the relationship between perceived stress and emotional well-being by positive and negative religious coping strategies is mediated. All of the regression weights in the proposed model were statistically significant and model' predictors accounted for ۸۰ and ۶۰% of the variance in positive and negative affect, respectively. These findings show that in cancer patients when encountering to stressful experiences, difference in scores of positive and negative affect among patients, accounted for by difference in degree of positive and negative religious coping strategies.

کلیدواژه ها:

perceived stress ، religious coping strategies ، positive and negative affect ، cancer patients ، استرس ادراک شده ، راهبردهای مقابله مذهبی ، عاطفه مثبت و منفی ، بیماران سرطانی