Modeling the Relationship between Religion and Psychological Well-being with Self-Efficacy Mediation, Perceived Social Support, and the Meaning of Life

The purpose of this study was to investigate the multiple relationships between religiosity,self-efficacy,meaning of life,perceived social support and psychological well-being and to provide a model for predicting psychological well-being by religiosity,self-efficacy,meaning of life and perceived social support.In this study,the mediating role of self-efficacy,meaning of life,perceived social support in the relationship between religiosity and psychological well-being was investigated.The research method is descriptive and the research design is Correlation of path analysis type.The sample consisted of 446 students studying at the Islamic Azad University of Qom in the academic year of 2017-2018 who were selected by stratified random sampling.Data were collected using the religiosity questionnaire,general self-efficacy,meaning of life, psychological well-being,and the Perceived social support.Descriptive statistics, correlation matrix and path analysis were used for data analysis.Findings showed that A)The path of the effect of religiosity on self-efficacy and meaning of life is positive and significant, but the path of religiosity and perceived social support is not significant.The paths between self-efficacy and psychological well-being, the meaning of life and psychological well-being, perceived social support and psychological well-being are also positive and significant. B)perceived Social support directly has a significant effect on psychological well-being. But religiosity indirectly affects psychological well-being through mediating variables of self-efficacy and meaning of life. Therefore, self-efficacy and the meaning of life can be considered as appropriate mediating variables in the relationship between religiosity and psychological well-being. Also in this study, 51% of the changes in psychological well-being are explained by religiosity, perceived social support, meaning of life and self-efficacy