The Intermediate Role of Resilience in the Relationship between One's Image of God and Family's Function

The family’s function is an important aspect of family affecting the physical, social, and affective health of the family members. The present research is a descriptive study of the correlation type aiming at an investigation of the intermediary role of resilience in the relationship between one’s image of God and family’s function. To do so, 386 teachers in Southern Khorasan were selected through stage stratified sampling. To gather data, we used Image of God Inventory, Resilience Scale, and Family Function Scale. The results of the statistical analysis showed that there is a positive meaningful relationship between all subscales of image of God and resilience, but there is a negative meaningful relationship between those subscales and unhealthy function of the family. Similarly, the results of regression analysis showed that family function is predictable by image of God, which explains 19.3% of family function. According to the obtained results, three subscales of image of presence, affection and benevolence explain the major part of this variance. The results of investigating the main hypothesis of the research showed that resilience is a minor intermediary in the relationship of three subscales of image of presence, affection and benevolence with family function.