Predicting Self-Efficacy of Women with Breast Cancer based on Quality of Life, Religious Orientation, Resilience, Death Anxiety, Psychological Hardiness and Perceived Social Support

The purpose of the present study was to predict self-efficacy of women with breast cancer based on quality of life, religious orientation, resilience, death anxiety, psychological hardiness and perceived social support. The research method was descriptive and regression type. The statistical population in this study included all patients with breast cancer referring to Cancer Institute of Imam Khomeini and Milad hospitals in Tehran in ۲۰۱۸. Purposeful sampling method was used to select the sample. In this way, ۳۰۰ patients with breast cancer patients were selected based on the criteria for entering and leaving the research. The research tool was a general self-efficacy questionnaire of Sherer et al. (۱۹۸۲), multi-dimensional perceived social support questionnaire (Zimt et al., ۱۹۸۹), Allport Religious Orientation (۱۹۶۷), Kobasa Psychological Hardiness Questionnaire (۱۹۷۹), Templar's Death Anxiety Scale (۱۹۷۰) ), The Conor-Davidson Resilience Questionnaire (۲۰۰۳) and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (۱۹۹۶). Regression analysis was used to analyze the data. The results of data analysis showed that factors of quality of life, religious orientation, resilience, death anxiety, psychological hardiness and perceived social support have ۲۱% ability to predict self-efficacy. The factors of quality of life, resilience, psychological hardiness and social support with self-efficacy are positive at ۵% confidence level, and the positivity of these coefficients actually indicates that increasing these factors increases self-efficacy (p <۰.۰۵). Death anxiety also has a significant negative correlation with self-efficacy (p <۰.۰۵).