The Relationship between Resilience and Psychological Well-being: The Mediating Role of Optimism

Subject Areas : Educational

hossein souri ¹ , Elahe Hejazi ² , محسن سوری‌نژاد ³

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Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2014-06-22

Keywords: Optimism, resilience, Psychological well-being,

Abstract :

  The present study was carried out in order to predict psychological well-being via resiliency and test the mediating role of optimism in the relationship between psychological well-being and resilience. To this end, a sample of 414 students of medicine (213 boys and 191 girls) was selected through multistage cluster sampling. They were asked to Complete Resiliency Scale (Connor & Davidsons, 2003), Optimism Scale (Scheier and Carver, 1995) and Well-being Scale (Ryff, 1989). The results indicated that resilience can predict psychological well-being. The results showed that correlation of optimism with predictive variable (resilience) is positive and significant (P < 0.01, r=0.38) and with the criterion variable (psychological well-being) is also positive and significant (P < 0.01, r= 0.45). According to the results of hierarchical regression, it may be concluded that optimism plays a partial mediating (and not full) role in the relationship between resiliency and psychological well-being. Based on the findings it can be said that part of the effect of resiliency on, psychological well-being could be applied through optimism. The findings showed that regardless of the level of resilience, optimism can, to some extent, facilitate psychological well-being. All correlations were significant in the level of 0.01.