The mediating role of self- differentiation and forgiveness in the relationship between psychological capital and life satisfaction in married women.

Subject Areas : Woman and family

roghieh Haji Rostamloo ¹ , Abdolhasan Farhangi ² , Reza Hosseinpour ³

1 - phD student of psychology, department of psychology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant professor, department of psychology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran., (Corresponding Author). E-mail: [e-mail]
3 - Assistant professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, Imam Hossien University (Visiting professor in Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch). Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-10-31 Accepted : 2024-04-14 Published : 2024-06-19

Keywords: psychological capital, life satisfaction, self-differentiation, interpersonal forgiveness,

Abstract :

Life satisfaction is one of the most important factors of well-being and mental health, which positive psychology has paid special attention to in recent decades. The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the mediating role of self-differentiation and forgiveness in the relationship between psychological capital and life satisfaction in married women. This research was descriptive and correlational. Its statistical population included 798 married women in Tehran city, who were selected by multi-stage sampling method and used Diener's (1985) life satisfaction questionnaires, Luthans and Morgan's (2007) psychological capitals, Drake's individual differentiation (2011) and interpersonal forgiveness answered by Ehtshamzadeh et al. (2011). Structural equation method and Pearson correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data. The results showed that psychological capital, self-differentiation and interpersonal forgiveness directly had a significant effect on life satisfaction (P < 0.05). In addition, these psychological capitals had an effect on life satisfaction indirectly and through the mediation of interpersonal forgiveness and self- differentiation (P < 0.05). The findings of this study can be used to create a solution to reduce the destructive effects of not being satisfied with life in married women.

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