Relationship between family function and student's psychological hardiness

The role and significance of psychological hardiness as a buffer personality characteristic against life stress events has been shown in several studies. Researchers have formulated many assumptions and hypotheses about formation of hardiness but no in depth study are carried out until yet. In order to investigate the relationship between family function and psychological hardiness a sample of 350 participants (175 males and 175 females) from high school students in Kangavar town were selected. The family functioning scale (FFS) which has a total score and 15 subscale, and Adolescence Hardiness Scale (AHS) were used for measuring the two constructs. Adolescence hardiness scale which is based on personal view survey scale from the third generation of hardiness scale was constructed for this research.The data were analyzed through correlation, multiple regression and t test. Findings indicate a significant positive relationship between family function and hardiness in total sample and two different male and female subsamples. Dimension of family functioning appeared in multiple regression as predictive variables. Differences of the two subsamples were not significant relative to hardiness. The first seven hypotheses of research were confirmed and only the last one was rejected. The findings of the present research are in consistence with the literature review of hardiness.