The contribution of spiritual health, optimism and happiness in prediction of psychological well-being among students

Subject Areas : Educational

fatemeh  farhadyan ¹ (Fatemeh Al-Zahra Higher Education Institute, Khorasgan, isfahan, Iran.)
azam  moradi ² (Academic member, dolat abad Branch, pyam noor University, isfahan, Iran.)

Received: 2019-01-26 Accepted : 2019-09-15 Published : 2020-07-22

Keywords: forgiveness, University, Optimism, psychological well-being, spiritual wellbeing,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to determination the contribution of each of the variables of spiritual health, optimism and forgiveness to predict the psychological well-being of the students of Payam-e-Noor University of Dolatabad Center. The research sample consisted of 120 students from among 1477 students of different faculties of this university who were selected randomly and in a cluster sampling. The research method was correlation of the predicted type.The instruments were, the Rif questionnaire (1980), the Spiritual health questionnaire from the viewpoint of Islam Mousavi Moghaddam (1392), Carver & Shire (LO), Life Inventory (LOT) questionnaire (1985) and ehteshamzadeh (2010) Interpersonal Forgiveness Inventory (IFI) (2010) used.Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and stepwise regression analysis.The findings showed that the average psychological well-being of students was 62.61%. The results of stepwise regression analysis also showed that spiritual well-being significantly predicted the psychological well-being of students (P = 0.0001). But the addition of each of the variables of optimism and forgiveness to the spiritual health variable does not significantly increase the predictive power of psychological well-being of the students. The results of the hypothesis test showed that psychological well-being had a significant relationship with spiritual well-being, optimism and forgiveness of students.

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