Rlationship between character strength and social, psychological, and spiritual well-being with mediating use of character strength

Today, educational psychologists seek to improve students' performance and increase their well-being in all social, psychological and spiritual fields. Therefore, an important issue in the academic life of students is the improvement of their social, psychological and spiritual performance, which is the main concern of educational psychologists. Recently, they have achieved this with the help of positive psychology by focusing on character strength.

The purpose of this study is designing and testing relationships between character strength and social, psychological, spiritual well-being with mediating use of character strength.

For this purpose, 380 students were selected by multistage random sampling from twelve elementary school students in Ghale Ganj city. Research tools include the Values ​​in Practice Questionnaire Patterson & Seligman (2004), Social well-being Questionnaire Lee & Keys (1998), Spiritual Well-being Questionnaire (Palutzian, 1982), Psychological Well-being Questionnaire (Nava, Wells Duvillar & Pena, 2018) and the use of character strengths Questionnaire (Gavinci and Linley, 2007).

The results of structural equation analysis showed that character strengths have a direct relationship with psychological (B= 0.369, p<0/01), social (B= 0.201, p<0/01), and spiritual well-being (B= 0.258, p<0/01). Bootstrap results also showed that there is an indirect relationship between character strengths through the use of character strengths with psychological (B= 0.114, p<0/01), social (B= 0.110, p<0/01), and spiritual well-being (B= 0.103, p<0/01).

Based on the findings of the study the character strengths are an important factor in predicting students well-being in all types (social, psychological and well-being), which this effect increased by use of character strengths.