Educational Psychology

Predict Subjective Vitality Based on Resilience Mediated by Moral Intelligence of Undergraduate Students at Bu-Ali Sina University

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Abolghasem Yaghoobi 1
Arash Bahrami 2
Afshin Afzali 3

1 Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran

2 Ph.D. Student of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22054/jep.2025.83162.4108
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to predict subjective vitality based on resilience mediated by moral intelligence of undergraduate students at Bu-Ali Sina University. The research design was descriptive and correlational with structural equation (regression) technique. The study population was all 6701 undergraduate students of Bu Ali Sina University in Hamadan during the academic year 2018-19. Statistical sample was 364 persons using Morgan (1970) table. The statistical sample was selected by using the relative stratified random method with the classification of students by gender and college. Required data were collected by Ryan and Friedrich (1997) Subjective Vitality Questionnaire, Conner & Davidson (2003) Resilience Questionnaire, and Lenik & Kiel Mental Intelligence Questionnaire, using linear regression in the modeling context. Structural equations were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS version 21 software. The results of the estimation of the research model showed that the total resilience of 0.491 units had a positive and direct effect on explaining the variance of subjective vitality (p <0.01). But regarding the indirect effect of resilience on mental vitality through moral intelligence, the results showed that resilience through moral intelligence had a negative and significant effect on mental vitality by -0.119 units (p <0.05). Also, resiliency had a positive and direct effect (0.68) on explaining the variance of mental vitality and 0.71 on explaining the variance of moral intelligence (p <0.01). Finally, moral intelligence had a negative effect of -0.270 units on explaining variance of subjective vitality (p <0.05).

Findings and Conclusion: The results of the research model estimation showed that resilience as a whole has a direct effect of 0.491 units in explaining the variance of the mental vitality variable (p<0.01). However, regarding the indirect effect of resilience on mental vitality through moral intelligence, the results showed that resilience through moral intelligence has a negative and significant effect of -0.192 units on mental vitality (p<0.05). Also, resilience has a direct effect of 0.68 units in explaining the variance of mental vitality and a direct effect of 0.71 units in explaining the variance of moral intelligence (p<0.01). Finally, moral intelligence has a negative and inverse effect of -0.270 units in explaining the variance of mental vitality (p<0.05).

Keywords

mental vitality
resilience
moral intelligence
Subjects
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