The Stress of Leprosy as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Coping Resources, Coping Strategies, and Psychological Well-Being in Persons Affected by Leprosy. The Structural Equation Models Through a Correlation Study

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Table 1 Results of the Analysis of Respondents Characteristics

Characteristics	Category	Frequency	Percentage (%)
Gender	Men	83	66.40
	Women	42	33.60
Age	< 15 Years	3	2.40
	> 15 Years	122	97.60
Marital status	Married	65	52.00
	Not Household	60	48.00
Level of education	No school	6	4.80
	Primary school	9	7.20
	Junior high school	23	18.40
	Senior High School	57	45.60
	Diploma / College	30	24.00
Employment status	Employed	65	52.00
	Unemployed	60	48.00
Types of Leprosy	MB	47	37.60
	PB	78	62.40
Sick time	< 1 Years	45	36.00
	1 Years	66	52.80
	2 Years	2	1.60
	≥ 4 Years	12	9.60
Leprosy Reaction	1 Time	63	50.40
	2 Time	14	11.20
	3 Time	12	9.60
	4 Time	15	12.00
	5 Time	12	9.60
	> 5 Time	9	7.20
Leprosy Family	Yes	6	4.8
	No	119	95.2

Table 2 Description of Research Variables

Variable	Dimension	Mean	Std. Deviation
Resilience		3.14	1.10
Coping Resources	Cognitive	2.80	0.71
	Social	2.81	0.71
	Emotional	2.76	0.74
	Spiritual	2.74	0.74
	Physical	2.79	0.74
Leprosy stress		2.67	0.48
Psychological Well-Being	The Autonomy	2.97	0.99
	The Environmental Mastery	2.85	0.77
	The Personal Growth	2.82	0.75
	The Positive Relations with Others	2.84	0.75
	The Purpose in Life	2.78	0.77
	The Self-Acceptance	2.81	0.77

Figure 1 Outer Model Construct.

Table 3 Value of Loading and Cross Loading

	Coping Resources	Coping Strategies	Leprosy Stress	Psychological Well-Being
Cognitive	0.964	0.825	−0.840	0.885
Emotional	0.972	0.835	−0.842	0.897
Physical	0.966	0.784	−0.817	0.859
Social	0.981	0.840	−0.860	0.906
Spiritual	0.959	0.796	−0.793	0.849
Alert Processing	0.791	0.962	−0.821	0.849
Physical and Fixed	0.800	0.966	−0.837	0.849
Positive and Knowing-based	0.832	0.982	−0.870	0.899
Resourceful and Focused	0.845	0.968	−0.897	0.898
The Autonomy	0.888	0.887	−0.898	0.942
The Environmental Mastery	0.876	0.860	−0.856	0.949
The Personal Growth	0.877	0.860	−0.853	0.977
The Positive Relations with Others	0.852	0.851	−0.852	0.949
The Purpose in Life	0.853	0.871	−0.851	0.960
The Self-Acceptance	0.844	0.827	−0.794	0.941
Leprosy Stress	−0.858	−0.884	1.000	−0.893

Table 4 Construct Reliability and Validity

Variable	Cronbach’s Alpha	Rho-A	Composite Reliability	Average Variance Extracted (AVE)
Coping Resources	0.983	0.984	0.987	0.938
Coping Strategies	0.979	0.980	0.984	0.940
Leprosy Stress	1.000	1.000	1.000	1.000
Psychological Well-being	0.980	0.980	0.983	0.908

Figure 2 Inner Model Construct.

Table 5 Hypothesis Testing Results

Influence	Coefficient	T Statistics (|O/STDEV|)	P values
Coping Resources → Leprosy Stress	−0.389	5.081	0.000
Coping Resources → Psychological Well-being	0.426	4.481	0.000
Coping Resources → Leprosy Stress → Psychological Well-being	0.085	2.709	0.007
Coping Strategies → Leprosy Stress	−0.556	7.347	0.000
Coping Strategies → Psychological Well-being	0.350	4.502	0.000
Leprosy Stress → Psychological Well-being	−0.219	3.068	0.002
Coping Strategies → Leprosy Stress → Psychological Well-being	0.122	2.701	0.007

Table 6 R Square

Influence	R Square	R Square Adjusted
Leprosy Stress	0.825	0.822
Psychological Well-being	0.897	0.895