The Structural Model of Relationships of Factors Affecting Post-Traumatic Growth Mediated by Cognitive Positive Re-evaluation and Rumination in Patients with Cancer

The large body of research, from theorizing to empirical findings, suggests that positive cognitive Re-evaluation of trauma may further support positive post-traumatic outcomes by enhancing post-traumatic growth. The aim of this study was to investigate the direct and indirect role coping strategies, core beliefs disruption, social support, spirituality, religious cope and intrusive rumination with PTG and also examining the mediating role of positive re-evaluation and rumination were within the framework of a causal model.

The present study was a cross-sectional study that was done using causal modeling methods that included path analysis and structural equation modeling. The statistical population included all cancer patients who referred to Omid Oncology Hospital and Imam Reza Oncology Ward in Mashhad in 1398. Sampling method was available. 420 patients with cancer answered the questionnaires used in this study. Data were analyzed using SPSS-16 version and PLS software (version2).

The findings generally showed that positive Re-evaluation mediated between post-traumatic growth and social support variables, presence and search for meaning, positive religious cope, negative religious cope, deliberate rumination, and core beliefs disruption. Deliberate rumination was also a mediator between growth and core beliefs disruption and automatic rumination. On the other hand, social support, presence and search for meaning, core beliefs disruption and deliberate rumination, problem-based and emotion-based coping methods had a direct and positive effect, and intrusive rumination and self-distraction coping had a direct and negative effect on growth.

The results of the present study showed that in addition to confirming the direct paths of coping, social support, spirituality, deliberate rumination, core beliefs disruption in growth, positive re-evaluation of one of the explanatory passages of social support paths, religious cope, spirituality, intrusive rumination, core beliefs disruption It was about post-traumatic growth.