Purpose: Diabetes is one of the chronic diseases that can negatively affect the physical and mental health of the patient. Thus, using appropriate coping styles to adapt to the disease and attachment to God can lead to self-control in patients with diabetes.
Materials and Methods: This study was performed in a quasi-experimental, descriptive and correlational manner. The statistical population of the present study consists of 200 people with diabetes in Kerman in 1399. Questionnaires of Attachment to God, Tanji self-control and Lazarus coping styles were used to collect data and in order to analyze the data in the path analysis method was used AMOS software.
Findings: The findings of this study indicate that there is a significant relationship between emotion-oriented coping styles with attachment to God, which leads to self-control in patients with diabetes, but unfortunately a relationship based on the use of problem-oriented coping styles Not present in patients with diabetes.
Conclusion: The results of this study show that the use of emotion-oriented coping styles with the attachment to God in patients with Diabetes is a necessary condition for self-control but it is not enough. In order to achieve self-control to improve their physical and mental conditions in the face of the illness, the use of problem-oriented coping styles along with emotion-centered coping styles and attachment to God is important and It is essential.