The Effect of Personality characteristics and Perceived Social Support on Gratitude with the Mediation of Academic Stress and Self efficacy

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between personality traits and perceived social support with gratitude through educational mediation and academic self-efficacy. This research is a correlation method in which the relationships between research variables were investigated using structural equation modeling. Participants included 474 secondary school students (186 boys and 288 girls) who were selected by multistage cluster random sampling method from high school students in Yazd city. The subjects completed a multi-component gratitude scale, a short form of five major factors, a multidimensional scale of perceived social support, an academic stressful questionnaire, and an academic self-efficacy questionnaire. The results of this study showed that among personality traits as the first external variable of direct agreement, consistency, task-oriented, psychoanalytic, and open-to-experience experience indirectly through mediation Academic stress and academic self-efficacy were able to anticipate appreciation. Also, from the dimensions of perceived social support as an external variable, secondly, the support of others and direct family support and family support indirectly, mediating academic stress and academic self-efficacy anticipated gratitude. The result is that personality traits and perceived social support reduce academic stress and less stressful individuals are more effective in coping with academic problems. In such a situation, students are on the path to becoming more exalted.