Model Evaluation of Feeling Shame and Guilty according to the Attachment Style with the Mediation of Self-Compassion in Physically Disabled Patients

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1 Ma of clinical psychology, Islamic Azad University, Roudhan Branch, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Psychology Education Department, Islamic Azad University, Roudhan Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to find a structural model for feeling shame and guilty according to the attachment style with the mediation of self-compassion in physically disabled patients. The present study was applicative and the research method was correlation through structural equation modeling method. The statistical population included physically disabled patients hospitalized in specialized centers in zones 17 and 18 in the city of Tehran in the spring of 2020. The patients’ disability resulted from dystrophy, cerebral paralysis, Multiple Sclerosis and spinal cord injury. The sample size in the present study was 250 patients who were selected via convenient sampling method. The research instruments included Adults’ Attachment Style Scale (Collins, Read, 1990), Self-Compassion Questionnaire (Neff, 2003) and Test of Self-Conscious Affect (TOSCA) (Tangeni, 1992). The results showed that secure, ambivalent and avoidant attachment styles and self-compassion have had significant direct effect on feeling shame and guilty in physically-disabled patients (p<0.001). Moreover, the results showed that self-compassion has significant mediation role in the relationship of secure, ambivalent and avoidant attachment styles with feeling shame and guilty besides its direct effect on this feeling in physically disabled patients.

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Journal of Applied Psychological Research

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Available Online from 12 May 2025

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History

  • Receive Date: 17 January 2023
  • Revise Date: 01 March 2023
  • Accept Date: 16 April 2023
  • First Publish Date: 12 May 2025
  • Publish Date: 12 May 2025

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