Providing a Structural Model of Predicting Mental Health based on Personality Traits with the Mediating Role of Resilience in Islamic Azad University Students

Mental health plays an important role in the academic and non-academic life of students. Therefore, the present research was conducted with the aim of providing a structural model of predicting mental health based on personality traits with the mediating role of resilience in Islamic Azad University students.

This study was a cross-sectional from type of correlational. The research population was all the students of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran city in the academic years of 2022-2023, which the sample size was estimated to be 685 people. The samples of this study were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method and responded to the research tools including mental health questionnaire (Goldberg and Hillier, 1979), personality traits questionnaire (Costa and McCrae, 1985) and resilience scale (Connor and Davidson, 2003). The data of this study were analyzed by structural equation modeling method in SPSS and Amos software.

The findings showed that the structural model of predicting mental health based on personality traits with the mediating role of resilience in Islamic Azad University students had a good fit. Also, in this model, neuroticism, extraversion, openness, adaptability and conscientiousness on students' resilience and neuroticism, openness, adaptability and conscientiousness on students' mental health had a direct and significant effect (P<0.05), but extroversion on their mental health did not have a direct and significant effect (P>0.05). In addition, neuroticism, extroversion, adaptability and conscientiousness with the mediating of resilience on students' mental health had an indirect and significant effect (P<0.05), but openness with the mediating of resilience on their mental health did not have an indirect and significant effect (P>0.05).

In general, the results of this study indicated the direct and indirect effects of personality traits and resilience on students' mental health. Therefore, in order to improve their mental health can provide interventions in the field of personality traits and resilience.