Relationship between Personality Traits & Gratitude as a Moral Virtue: Mediating Role of Academic Stress & Self-Efficacy
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Background: Gratitude as a moral virtue not only plays a very important role in mental health of humans, but also appreciates the repetition, abundance and continuity of their desirable behaviors, and it gives meaning to social life and human society. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of mediator of academic stress and academic self-efficacy in the relationship between personality traits and gratitude.
Method: The research, application and method of collecting and analyzing its data are descriptive and correlational. The research community is the second-grade secondary school students of Yazd, of which 474 students (186 boys and 288 girls) were selected by cluster random sampling method. The questionnaire was filled out by a multi-component gratitude scale, a short form of a five-factor questionnaire, a questionnaire of academic stress and an academic self-efficacy questionnaire. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling.
Results: The results showed that among the personality traits, consistency, extroversion and openness to experience directly and task-oriented, openness to experience and psychosocialism indirectly and with mediating stress academic and academic self-efficacy can anticipate gratitude.
Conclusion: The result is that personality traits can reduce the academic stress of individuals and low-stressed individuals in coping with the problems of self-efficacy. In such a situation, students are on the path to becoming more exalted.
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Keywords: Academic stress, Academic self-efficacy, Moral virtue, Gratitude, Personality traits |
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Special Received: 2019/09/1 | Accepted: 2019/10/26 | Published: 2021/12/1
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