Background & Aim: Cancer is one of the most important causes of mortality in the world. Nowadays, beside the biological and medical interventions, the possible effect of other factors in adaptation and efficacy of treatment measures has been considered. Thus, this research carried out to determine the relationships between hardiness with self-efficacy and personal control in cancer patients. ...

Abstract Background & Aim: Occupational hardiness as a set of personality traits is a source of resistance and protection against stressful life events. The aim of this study was assessment of psychometric properties of Occupational Hardiness Scale. Material & Methods: A total of 210 nurses were recruited through stratified sampling method and responded to Occupational Hardiness Scale, Be...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of marital forgiveness in the relationship between psychological hardiness and marital burnout The research design was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population was all married women referred to municipal centers in district 12 of Tehran. A sample of 239 people were selected using available sampling. The research instrume...

 The objective of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of “Hardiness” scale for university students. The instrument used was Lang and Goulet hardiness scale, translated from English into Persian by using back-translation technique. The “Hardiness” scale for university (Shahed, Tehran & Beheshti). Factor analysis revealed three factors (control, commitment, and challenge) expla...

Introduction: Mental health is affected by several variables, among which the most important ones could be considered job burnout, social support and psychological hardiness. This study aimed to investigate the relationship of job burnout, social support and psychological hardiness with mental health among nurses. Methods: This was a descriptive–analytical research from the correlation...

This study aimed to investigate the psychological hardiness as the role of mediator in the relationship between spiritual well-being and marital satisfaction. This study considers spiritual well-being as an exogenous variable, and dimensions of psychological hardiness as mediator variables, and marital satisfaction as an endogenous variable. Participants in this study were 300 marital students ...

this research performed with the aim of studying trust relationship in interpersonal relationships and family hardiness with marital satisfaction. this research is descriptive and correlation type. This research statistical universe is about all couples who either both or one of them is working in Tehran municipal and it is past at least one year of their marriage. That among them, 381 men and ...

Background: The quality of hospital systems depends greatly on the performance of nurses, and the performance of nurses has a significant effect on individual patients` satisfaction. Therefore, it is important to examine the factors related to nurses' performance. The aim of study was to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence and occupational hardiness and the job performan...