Developing a Structural Model for Academic Well-being of Students of Tabriz Medical Sciences Based on the Sense of Coherence and Self-Compassion by Mediating Responsibility

Academic well-being is an important variable in the field of education and learning, whose underlying factors must be identified. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the structural relationship between sense of coherence, self-compassion and responsibility with academic well-being. This descriptive correlational study was performed on students of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. A number of 350 students (181 males and 169 females) who were selected through multi-stage sampling method completed the questionnaires of sense of coherence by Antonovsky, self-compassion by Neff, responsibility by gough, academic burnout inventory by Salmela-Aro et al, and schoolwork engagement inventory by Salmela-Aro & Upadya. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling method. The hypothetical model of academic well-being provided a good fit to the research population (X2/df = 2.68, RMSEA = 0.06). Direct path of sense of coherence, self-compassion and responsibility to academic well-being was significant. Also, direct path of sense of coherence and self-compassion to responsibility was significant. Indirect path of sense of coherence with mediating role of responsibility was significant. But indirect path of self-compassion to academic well-being wasn't significant. In total, 35% of the variance of academic well-being was explained by the variables of the proposed model. Given the direct and indirect effect of sense of coherence, self-compassion and responsibility on the academic well-being, it seems that reinforcement of responsibility, self-compassion and sense of coherence may enhance student’s academic well-being.