Modeling Fear of Breast Cancer Recurrence Based on Personality, Cognitive Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Well-Being with the Mediating Role of Illness Perception in Spouses of Military Families

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1 Department of psychology, ShQ. C., Islamic Azad University, Shahre-e Qods, Iran

2 Assistant Professor,Department of psychology, Bo.C., Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran

3 Master's student, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Science and Research, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the structural pattern of Fear of Cancer Recurrence (FCR) in female breast cancer survivors based on personality traits, cognitive emotion regulation and psychological well-being with the mediating role of illness perception. In this descriptive correlation study the statistical population was all women with breast cancer referred to the Cancer Institute of Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex in Tehran whose treatments had been completed. The population of this study included all women with breast cancer who were referred to Cancer Institute for their regular follow up in the spring and summer of 2022. Three hundred patients who satisfied the entry requirements were recruited based on convenience purposive sampling. They completed the questionnaires online for FCR (Simard & Savard, 2009), cognitive emotion regulation short form (Granfski & Kraaij, 2006), psychological well-being short form (Ryff & Keyes, 1995) and brief illness perception (Broadbent et al., 2006). Data were analyzed by using Pearson's correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling analysis. SPSS software (version 26) and AMOS software (version 24) were used for data analysis. The findings indicated that the direction of correlation between the variables at (p<0.01) was in keeping with the theories of the study. Additionally, the model did fit the data. In addition, neuroticism, maladaptive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation, and illness perception with the positive total path coefficients, and extraversion, conscientiousness, adaptive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation, and psychological well-being with the negative total path coefficients negatively and significantly hadan effect on FCR.

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Military Psychology
Volume 16, Issue 1 - Serial Number 61
Spring Quarterly
September 2025
Pages 139-166

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  • Receive Date: 21 March 2025
  • Revise Date: 16 April 2025
  • Accept Date: 03 September 2025

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