Study of causal relationship between sense of coherence, psychological hardiness, coping strategies and mental health

The current study investigated the causal relationship between the sense of coherence (SOC) and psychological hardiness، coping strategies and mental health. 405 women from Ahvaz City، with ages ranged between 25-55 years participated in the study. Flensborg-Madsen et al. ''s sense of coherence scale، Najarian et al. ''s hardiness scale، Moss and Billings stress coping strategies، and Godberg''s mental health scale were administered. The results of path analysis indicated that the proposed model which linked sense of coherence، psychological hardiness، coping strategies and mental health fitted the data. Direct and non-direct path coefficients of the sense of coherence and mental health were also significant. Furthermore، path coefficients of the direct effect of hardiness on emotion-centered coping strategies، SOC on emotion-centered coping strategies and emotion-centered coping strategies on mental health were also significant. Findings indicated that the SOC and psychological hardiness had a determining role in mental health. Also، causal modeling path analysis demonstrated that some variables made their relationship complicated