Designing and testing a model of the casual relationships between personality traits of sociotropy/autonomy, perception of stressful events and depression symptoms in Shahid Chamran University students

The purpose of the presentstudy was designing and testing a model of the casual relationships between sociotropy/autonomy, perception of stressful events and depression symptoms. Hypothesized model, includes sociotropy and autonomy as precedents, perception of interpersonal and achievement stressful events as mediators, and depression symptoms as outcomes variables. The sample consisted of 357 participants (123 male and 234 female) of undergraduate students at Shahid Chamran University who were selected using stratified random sampling method. The research instruments were Revised Personal Style Inventory (PSI-II), Life Experiences Survey (LES) and Beck Depression Inventory (second edition ((BDI-II). Structural equation modeling (SEM) through AMOS-18 and SPSS-18 software packages was used for data analysis. Bootstrap procedure was used for estimating the indirect effects. The primary analysis indicated that hypothesized model has a poor fit with the data. Better fit was achieved by applying some modifications in the final model.