psychological coping styles and tendency to addiction in teenagers: the Mediating role of resilience and ambiguity.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological coping styles and tendency to addiction in teenagers: Mediating role of resilience and ambiguity. Design of present study is correlational. For this purpose, from the statistical population of the high school students, 200 were selected by Multi-stage cluster random sampling and then the Endler and Parker’s coping questionnaire (1990), weed and et all’s  tendency to addiction (PAS)(1992), Connor and Davidson’s Resiliency scale(2003) and ambiguity questionnaire leen and et all’s(1993) were distributed among research participants to respond. Collected data were analyzed by using descriptive and correlation indicators, Structural equation modeling. Results indicated that there is a significant negative correlation between problem-Focused Coping Styles and tendency to addiction (p≤0/05) and Positive correlation between emotional and avoidant coping styles with tendency to addiction (p≤0/05). Also Path analysis model indicated that mediating role of ambiguity between problem-Focused and avoidant Coping Styles and tendency to addiction.  But resilience wasn’t mediating between psychological coping styles and tendency to addiction. The results support the hypothesis that emotional and avoidant coping styles leads to tendency to addiction and high ambiguity can have a moderating role in this regard.