Studying the relationship between Hardiness and Resilience Personality Traits and Academic Achievement among Students of Kashan University in 2014

Year 2015, Volume: 36 Issue: 3, 3294 - 3301, 13.05.2015

Abolfaz Raeyat Mohatashamı , Fatemeh Tajarı Mohammad Reza Akhbarı Rad

Abstract

Abstract. Introduction: Mental health is regarded as a basic need and vital factor in order for enhancing the quality of life. On the basis of psychological studies, there are moderating factors among stressful events and psychological disorders that lead to the formation of different influences of stressful events on the individuals. Resilience is defined as capability of adapting to menacing situations and hardiness refers to the one of the personality traits which moderates the manner of dealing with stressful factors. These two components as an important index in the mental health of academic achievement of Kashan University students were asses and studied.

Method: The plot of this research is based on cross-sectional study. Academic achievement acts as a criterion variable and two other variables, resilience and hardiness are considered as predictor variables. The academic achievement of students is assessed based on their GPAs with 2 groups of students, with GPA above 15 (successful student) and GPA below 15 (unsuccessful student). The research instruments were 3 questionnaires, the first one was demographic survey and the latters were Kobasa’s Ahvaz Hardiness Inventory and Connor- Davidson Resilience (CD-RIS).

Findings: The findings of this study are parallel with other studies in the same field, since of alignments of psychological hardiness and resilience. Furthermore, our findings proved an existence of relationship between these two personality traits and academic achievement rate of students which can contribute to selection of decent person at the initial phase of recruitment.

Keywords

Hardiness, resilience, Academic Achievement

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