The Relationship between General Self-Efficacy, Belonging and Love and Meaning in Life through the Mediating of Social Values among Secondary school Girls

Subject Areas : Educational

omidali  bapiri ¹ (Psychology University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.)
mehrdad  kalantari ² (Department of Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.)
Hamid Taher  Neshat Doost ³ (Department of Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.)
seyed hamid reza  oreyzi samani ⁴ (Department of Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.)

Received: 2018-02-19 Accepted : 2019-06-22 Published : 2020-05-21

Keywords: social values, general self-efficacy, meaning in life, belonging and love,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between general self-efficacy, belonging and love with meaning in life by mediating of social values in girls adolescent through structural equations modelling. This is a correlation study using causal modeling. The statistical population of the study was 4476 students in the third year of high school. A sample of 200 people was selected through multistage cluster random sampling.. Measurement tools included a Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (Sherer and Maddox, 1982), Belonging and Love Scale, Social Values Scale, and Meaning in Life Questionnaire (Steger et al, 2006). Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling approach.. The findings indicated that the direct relationship of the variables of general self-efficacy, belonging, love and social values on the meaning variable in life was significant (P<0.05). Also, the indirect relationship of self-efficacy variable and belonging and love on a meaning in life is significant if the variable of social values is mediator (P<0.05).

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