Predicting Senile Peopleâs Spiritual Well Being through Psychological Capital Components
Subject Areas : EducationalMohsen Golparvar 1 , Mohhamad Reza Mosahebi 2
1 - عضو هیأت علمی گروه روانشناسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی اصفهان، ایران
2 - عضو هیأت علمی گروه روانشناسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی اصفهان (خوراسگان) ، ایران
Keywords: psychological capital components, senile people, spiritual well being,
Abstract :
The present research is aimed at predicting senile spiritual well being through psychological capital components (self efficacy, hope, resiliency and optimism). Our research design was relational and the population was the senile people in Isfahan, Iran. 245 persons were selected through accessible sampling. Research instruments consisted of Spiritual Well-being Scale (Golparvar et al, 2015) and the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (Mc Gee, 2011). Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and enter method multiple regression analysis. The results showed that there were positive significant relationships between psychological capital components (self efficacy, hope, resiliency and optimism) and senile people’s spiritual well-being (P < 0.01). Also the results of enter method multiple regression analysis showed that from among these components self-efficacy (P < 0.01), resiliency (P < 0.05) and optimism (P < 0.01) have predictive power of spiritual well being in senile people.
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