Modeling Structural Relationships of Brain Behavioral System on Psychological Vulnerability by Mediating Anxiety Distress tolerance with Asthma Adolescence

One of the debates in psychology is the relationship between physical illnesses and the resulting psychological and psychological phenomena that can cause extensive harm to the individual. The purpose of this study was to model the causal relationships of behavioral brain system on psychosocial vulnerability by mediating the role of anxiety Distress tolerance with asthma.

The method of this research was descriptive-correlation based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the present study consisted of all 500 patients with asthmatic disease in District 2 of Tehran (Vanak region) in the specialized clinic of respiratory asthmatic patients in 1398. In this study, to determine the sample size according to the number of observed variables and assign a coefficient of 10 for each observed variable (24 variables observed in the model), and taking into account the possibility of incomplete questionnaires of 250 people as a sample size by purposeful selection Were. Carver and White Behavioral Brain Systems Questionnaire, Carpenters and Davoodi Psychiatric Injury, Simmons and Gaher Distress Tolerance Questionnaire were used to collect data. Regression equation tests were used to analyze the data.

The results showed that the behavioral brain system through Distress tolerance has an impact on the psychiatric vulnerability of asthmatic patients and the effects of direct and indirect pathways 63% of the variable of psychological vulnerability can be explained by the brain behavioral system Distress tolerance. In general, the research model was approved.

Considering the presence of psychological factors in asthma and identifying the role of emotional and anxiety factors in the extent of mental injury in patients, it is recommended that therapists consider protocols based on cognitive behavioral patterns in this group of patients.