Parenting Spirituality, Quality of Family Communication, and Student's Psychological Hardiness: The Mediating Role of Family Communication

The present study aimed to examine the relationship among parenting spirituality, quality of family communication, and students’ psychological hardiness. The population of the study comprised Zanjani high school students and their parents in 2010-2011 academic year. The sample of the study included 213 individuals who were selected through random sampling method. The instrumentation consisted of parents’ sanctity questionnaire, Family Communication Scale (FCS), and Kobasa hardiness scale. For the purpose of data collection, Pearson correlation coefficients and simultaneous regression analysis were used. Results showed that there was a positive, significant relationship between parenting spirituality, quality of family communication, and students’ psychological hardiness (P<0.01). Furthermore, the quality of family communication could explain a significant amount of variance in students’ psychological hardiness (22 percent). In fact, the higher the parenting spirituality, the higher the quality of family communication and adolescent’s hardiness.