Assistant professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran.

Subject Areas : Psychology

khodabakhsh heidari ¹ ( Assistant professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran. )
amir ghmarane ² ( Associate professor, Department of Psychology of Children with Special Needs, University of Isfahan, Iran. )
Mansoureh Bahramipour ³ ( Assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan), Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran. )

Received: 2014-11-19 Accepted : 2023-04-10 Published : 2024-09-25

Keywords: Resilience, Attachment to God, Personality traits,

Abstract :

The present study aimed to determine the effect of personality traits on the resilience of elementary school student teachers of Farhangian University with the mediation of attachment to God. The research was applied in terms of purpose and was correlational and structural equation modeling in terms of design. The statistical population of the study included all elementary school students and teachers of Isfahan Farhangian University in the academic year 2018-2019. The sample consisted of 191 students (92 boys, 99 girls) who were selected by stratified random sampling proportionate to the population of the campuses of Shahid Bahonar and Fatemeh Al-Zahra (PBUH) in Isfahan. Data were collected by Hexaco 6-factor personality questionnaires (Lee & Ashton, 2004), Resilience Questionnaire (Conner & Davidson, 2003), and Attachment to God Scale (Rowatt & Kirkpatrick, 2002). Pearson’s correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling were used to find the relationships among the variables using SPSS26 and PLS. The findings revealed that personality traits had a direct, positive, and significant relationship with resilience and attachment to God. Also, attachment to God mediated the relationship between personality traits and resilience (p<.01). Therefore, according to the developed model, it is possible to predict and strengthen resilience by identifying personality traits as a predictor variable and the degree of attachment to God as a mediating one. The results which were attained using the method of structural equation modeling demonstrated that the exogenous variable of personality traits has a significant direct effect on resilience. In addition, according to the results, the relationship between of personality traits and resilience is mediated by attachment to God.

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