Pressures and their Relation to the Psychological Hardiness among Breast Cancer Patients

Abstract

The current study aims at recognizing the relationship between the health,family,social,economic and
psychological pressures and their relation to psychological hardiness among breast cancer patients.The researcher follows
descriptive and explanatory approaches to explain this relationship.The research sample consists of 150 women affected by
breast cancer;and researcher used the scale of breast cancer patients’ pressures(prepared by Hijazi,2012), as well as the
scale of psychological hardiness (prepared by Mukhaimer,1997).Results indicated having a negative correlation between
the overall rigidity aspect and the health,family,social,economic and psychological pressures.

Results indicated that women affected by breast cancer have psychological hardiness, having a negative correlation between the
aspects of commitment and control, and the health, family, social, economic, psychological, having a correlation between
the aspect of control and the health and economic pressures, having a negative correlation between the aspect of the
challenge and the family, social, economic, psychological, having differences of statistical significance in control referring to
the marital status variable for the married women and having differences of statistical significance in control, challenge,
commitment referring to the number of children variable.