Introduction: Nursing is one of the occupations with high job tension which should pay special attention to its predicting factors for nurses' physical and mental health and reducing their job tension. According to this, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the correlation of psychological flexibility, type D personality and perceived social support with job tension in nurses. Me...

Aims: Diabetes is considered as a chronic and complex disease that, if not addressed, will turn into a serious problem for countries. On the other hand, life expectancy as a multidimensional, dynamic and powerful healing factor plays an important role in adapting to the disease. The present study aimed at predicting life expectancy among the diabetic patients based on self-efficacy, self-esteem...

  Background and Aim : The treatment of renal failure through dialysis imposes considerable stress on patient. The need for long-term medical treatment of renal failure may place substantial demands and limitations on patient’s daily function and lifestyles. Perceived social support may facilitate coping with illness and its complications. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to determine per...

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the cancer coping and its relationship with symptom management self-efficacy, perceived social support, uncertainty about life, and life orientation in Iranian breast cancer female survivors.  Methods: This study was carried out through a descriptive-analytical cross-sectional method .The data were collected from 150 breast cancer...

This study aimed to compare perceived social support of addicts and non-addicts were HIV-infected and healthy subjects. The study included descriptive and comparative studies that include all men addicted population with HIV, non-drug users were HIV-infected and healthy subjects 50-25 years old sonqor city. The sample from the samples available in the care of HIV patients were selected. Healthy...

Introduction: Social Support is defined as a mechanism of interpersonal communication that protects people from negative impact of stress. The high level of social support is attributed to the increase of academic self-efficacy and decrease of educational stress. Also, it   A reverse relationship between social support and test anxiety has been found. The present study aimed to identi...

  Background and aims   Increasing productivity in an organization requires providing various conditions important of all is human factor. Social support is known as a psychological factor in workplace that effect on productivity of human factor. The purpose of this study was to determine the rate of perceived social support among hospital personnel.   Methods In order to do this research 120 o...

Background and Objective: Given that the elderly population has been increasing in recent years in Iran, studying their life expectancy and its related factors is necessary. Thus, we aimed to examine the relationship of perceived social support and self-actualization with life expectancy in the elderly of Tehran city. Materials and Methods: This descriptive correlational study was conducted on...