Investigating the relationship between creativity and mental health and spiritual happiness and the parent's popularity of high school students and designing a model of spiritual happiness

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between creativity and mental health and spiritual happiness, and the parent's popularity of high school students and design a model of spiritual happiness. The present study was correlational. The statistical population in this study was all high schools in Tehran, and Sepehr Maarefat school was selected as the available sample. The sample size in this study was 200 female students. The tools used in this study were: The creativity test, Mental health test, Spiritual Happiness test, and Parental Popularity test. In this study, the obtained data from the questionnaires were analyzed by SPSS software version 26 and Smart PLS software version 3. Finally, the model of spiritual happiness was designed using the GOF index. The results showed that these variables have a significant relationship with a 95% confidence Interval (p<0.05).

Keywords

• creativity
• mental health
• spiritual happiness
• parent popularity

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