Masoumi Samin, Amiri Mohsen, Yousefi Afrashteh Majid
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Zanjan University, Zanjan, Iran.
Iran J Psychiatry. 2022 Jul;17(3):341-349. doi: 10.18502/ijps.v17i3.9734.
Perceived social support (PSS) and emotional self-regulation have customarily been related to greater psychological well-being, but the pathways via which perceived social support and emotional self-regulation increase psychological well-being have not been revealed. We investigated how much self-compassion mediated the association between perceived social support and emotional self-regulation in psychological well-being of breast cancer sufferers. A cross-sectional study design was used. Participants were recruited from three oncology departments in Zanjan, Iran. Data was collected from breast cancer patients (n = 300). Participants completed self-report measures, the short Ryff scale Psychological Well-being (RSPWB), Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) and Self-Compassion Scale (SCS). Pearson correlation coefficient was used to assess association among the study variables and multivariable regression analysis was used to assess linear relationships among predictor variables (emotional self-regulation, perceived social support and self-compassion) and criterion variable (psychological well-being). Bootstrapping analyses were used to test the significance on indirect effects. Bootstrapping analyses revealed significant indirect effects of perceived social support (β = 0.055, SE = 0.45, P = 0.049, 0.95 CI: LL = 0.0092, UL = 0.1345) and emotional self-regulation (β = 0.079, SE = 0.079, P = 0.004, 0.95 CI: LL = -0.0331, UL = -0.1358) on psychological well-being through self-compassion. These findings present new evidence that self-compassion may be a target for psychological interventions attempted at enhancing psychological well-being in cancer populations, particularly breast cancer survivors.
感知到的社会支持（PSS）和情绪自我调节通常与更高的心理健康水平相关，但感知到的社会支持和情绪自我调节提升心理健康水平的途径尚未明确。我们研究了自我同情在乳腺癌患者心理健康中，对感知到的社会支持与情绪自我调节之间的关联起到多大程度的中介作用。采用横断面研究设计。参与者从伊朗赞詹的三个肿瘤科室招募。收集了乳腺癌患者（n = 300）的数据。参与者完成了自我报告测量，包括简短的Ryff心理健康量表（RSPWB）、情绪调节问卷（ERQ）、多维感知社会支持量表（MSPSS）和自我同情量表（SCS）。使用Pearson相关系数评估研究变量之间的关联，并使用多变量回归分析评估预测变量（情绪自我调节、感知到的社会支持和自我同情）与标准变量（心理健康）之间的线性关系。采用自抽样分析来检验间接效应的显著性。自抽样分析揭示了感知到的社会支持（β = 0.055，SE = 0.45，P = 0.049，0.95置信区间：下限 = 0.0092，上限 = 0.1345）和情绪自我调节（β = 0.079，SE = 0.079，P = 0.004，0.95置信区间：下限 = -0.0331，上限 = -0.1358）通过自我同情对心理健康产生的显著间接效应。这些发现提供了新的证据，表明自我同情可能是旨在提高癌症患者尤其是乳腺癌幸存者心理健康水平的心理干预的一个目标。
