Relationship between aggression and individual resilience with the mediating role of spirituality in academic students – A path analysis
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3 Department of Psychology, Psychosocial Injuries Research Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences
4 Department of Psycholinguistics, School of Medicine, Ilam University of Medical Sciences
5 Department of Education, Ilam Province, Ilam, Iran
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چکیده
BACKGROUND: The importance of spirituality and spiritual growth in humans has been increasinglytaken to attention by psychologists and mental health professionals. In this study, we aimed toinvestigate the relationship between the tendency to aggression and individual resilience alsoconsidering the role of mediator of spirituality in academic students by path analysis.MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross‑sectional study was conducted using structural equationmethod (SEM). The target population consisted all of undergraduate academic students in Ilam, IranUniversity of Applied Sciences, in 2018. Participants included 200 people whom were selected bystratified random sampling. Data collection tools were demographic, Buss and Perry aggression,spirituality assessment, and resiliency of Connor and Davidson questionnaire. In this study, bivariateanalysis was used to determine the directionality correlation between the study variables.RESULTS: The results showed that there was a significant and positive correlation betweenspirituality and resilience (r = 154% r = 83%). Furthermore, there was a negative and nonsignificantrelationship between aggression with resiliency (r = −122% P = 101). In addition, there was nosignificant correlation between the aggression and spirituality (r = 0.05%, P = 0.942). The results ofSEM showed that spirituality and aggression can predict about 20% of the variations in the degreeof resilience in academic students. Accordingly, the results of SEM spirituality in an indirect pathreduce the aggression and thus increase the resilience (r = 0.102).CONCLUSION: The results of this study showed the effect of spirituality on increasing the level ofresilience and also positive mediator role of spirituality between aggression and resiliency.
