The purpose of this study was to investigate mediating role of coping with stress styles in the relationship between creative thinking and psychological well-being. Population included 410 students Tehran university students who were selected as sample by using multi-st More
The purpose of this study was to investigate mediating role of coping with stress styles in the relationship between creative thinking and psychological well-being. Population included 410 students Tehran university students who were selected as sample by using multi-stage cluster sampling method. Research method was descriptive and co-relational. The data collection tools were Ryff Psychological Well-Being Questionnaire (1989), Andler and Parker Coping with Stress Styles Questionnaire (1990) and Torrance Creative Thinking Questionnaire(1979). The results showed that creative thinking had a direct and positive impact on psychological well-being. Creative thinking with the help of mediating role of Problem-oriented and emotional-oriented methods had indirect effect on psychological well-being. Problem-oriented method had positive impact and emotional-oriented method had negative impact on psychological well-being. There were not any significant relationships between avoidance-oriented method with creative thinking and psychological well-being variables. Therefore as a conclusion coping with stress methods had a mediating role in regards to creative thinking and psychological well-being.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perfectionism and emotional adjustment with mediating role of motivational beliefs among high school students. For this purpose, 341 students(141 male and 200 female) were selected by using multi-stag More
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perfectionism and emotional adjustment with mediating role of motivational beliefs among high school students. For this purpose, 341 students(141 male and 200 female) were selected by using multi-stage cluster sampling. Procedure students completed the Multidimensional Perfectionism Questionnaire(Frost et al, 1990), High School Student Adjustment Questionnaire (Sinha & Sing,1993) and. Motivational Self–Regulated Learning Questionnaire (Pintrich & De grout, 1999). Path analysis was the major statistical operation run in the study. The results of path analysis showed that organization, personal standards and doubts about actions and concern over mistake predicted emotional adjustment directly and indirectly with mediating role of test anxiety. In sum, results showed that test anxiety plays a mediation role between perfectionism dimensions and emotional adjustment appropriately. Based on the finding, in order to increase level of emotional adjustment in perfectionism people it would seem useful to intervene by decreased test anxiety.
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