SELF-ACCEPTANCE AND LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG BREAST CANCER PATIENTS OF ISLAMABAD

Najam ul Hasan Abbasi; Seema Gul; Maryam Khurshid et al.

Najam ul Hasan Abbasi Department of Psychology, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Seema Gul Assistant Professor GS Dept., Prince Sultan University, Women Campus Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Maryam Khurshid et al. Department of Psychology, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Keywords: Breast cancer, self-acceptance, Life satisfaction, Islamabad

Abstract

ABSTRACT:
INTRODUCTION: It is acknowledged all over the world that breast cancer can aﬀect a woman's feelings of self-acceptance and life satisfaction, there are few studies concerning the level of selfacceptance and life satisfaction separately among women with breast cancer in Pakistan population. OBJECTIVES: To study the role of self-acceptance on life satisfaction among women with breast cancer, and to analyze the inﬂuence of socio-personal characteristics of women with their life satisfaction. DATA SOURCE & SETTINGS: A sample of 50 women (n=50) was selected from diﬀerent hospitals of Islamabad. PERIOD: The duration of the study was 6 months. METHODS: The present study made use of the two scales i-e., Satisfaction with Life Scale and SelfAcceptance Questionnaires. The random sampling technique was used to collect data of clinical group from diﬀerent hospitals of the Islamabad. RESULTS: Psychometric properties; alpha correlation, student t-test was used to analyze the data p value less than 0.05 was considered statistically signiﬁcant. The results showed that there was a signiﬁcant relationship between Self-acceptance and life satisfaction. The study also found that the low sense of identity as a whole, leads women to be dissatisﬁed with their lives. There was also a signiﬁcant diﬀerence in demographic variables on life satisfaction and self-acceptance. CONCLUSIONS: The level of self-acceptance among women with breast cancer in Islamabad was low. Several factors were found to be signiﬁcantly associated with the self-acceptance and life satisfaction of women with breast cancer.