Model of Predicting Hope According to the Social Support and Meaning in Life with the Mediation Role of Psychological Resilience in the University Student

The present study was conducted to offer a model of predicting hope according to the social support and meaning in life with the mediation role of psychological resilience in the university students. The research method was descriptive-correlational and pathway analysis. The statistical population of the study included all undergraduate students at non-state universities in the city of Tehran in academic year 2019-20. The statistical sample included 480 students who were selected through clustered random sampling method. The applied questionnaires included Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ) (Zimet, et.al. 1988), Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) (Steger, Frazier, 2006); Psychological Resilience Questionnaire (PRQ) (Conner, Davidson, 2003) and Hope Questionnaire (HQ) (Sympson, 1999). The data analysis was conducted through pathway analysis via SPSS and AMOS version 23. The results showed that social support, meaning in life and psychological resilience have significant relationship with hope in the students (p<0.01). Moreover, social support, meaning in life and psychological resilience have significant direct effect on the students’ hope (p<0.01). Furthermore, Bootstrap results showed that the psychological resilience has significant medication role in the relationship between social support and meaning in life (p<0.01). Finally the model enjoyed a suitable fitness. Taking the significant mediation role of psychological resilience, it is necessary for the therapists and consultants to increase the students’ hope through training psychological resilience.