MODELING WOMEN'S PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT TO CANCER BASED ON THE CAUSAL EFFECT OF EARLY MALADAPTIVE SCHEMAS BY CONSIDERING THE ROLE OF CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION STYLES AS A MEDIATING VARIABLE

The aim of this study was to determine the direct effect of early maladaptive
schemas and the direct effect of causal attribution styles on psychological Adjustment to cancer.
Materials & Methods: The study type is structural equation (SEM) and was conducted on a sample of
400 women with cancer in Urmia using the Questionnaires of Young Schema (SF-YSQ), attributional
Style (ASQ) and Adjustment to Cancer (Mini-Mac). PLS software was used for data analysis.
Results: There is a significant direct relationship between the areas of early maladaptive schemas and
causal attribution styles with the path coefficient of 0.617 (P <001). Also, there is a significant direct
relationship between the areas of early maladaptive schemas and psychological adaptation to cancer
with a path coefficient of 0.496, an indirect relationship with a path coefficient of 0.079 and a total effect
of 0.575 (P <001). There is a significant direct relationship between causal attribution styles and
psychological adaptation to cancer with a path coefficient of 0.20 (P <001). In the Q2 index, the value
of Red CV obtained for the variable of causal attribution styles is equal to 0.252 and the variable of
psychological compatibility with cancer is equal to 0.204.
Conclusion: The exogenous variable of early maladaptive schema areas has a direct effect on the
endogenous variable of causal attribution styles and a direct and indirect effect through the variable of
causal attribution styles on the endogenous variable of psychological Adjustment to cancer. The
endogenous variable of causal attribution styles also has a direct effect on the variable of psychological
Adjustment to cancer. The general conclusion is that the model has the ability to predict and fit and is
well made