Clarifying the causal model of academic resilience based on emotional intelligence and academic flexibility with the mediating role of coping styles in athlete students.

Document Type : Original Article

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1 pnu

2 Assistant Professor, Psychology Department of the Payam Noor University of Tehran, Iran

3 assistans

Abstract

Background and Objective: The aim of the present study was to present a causal model of academic resilience management based on emotional intelligence and academic flexibility with the mediating role of coping styles in student athletes at the University of Medical Sciences.
research methodology: This study was conducted using a correlational method. The statistical population included all student athletes of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, of whom 324 (214 girls and 110 boys) were selected for the study using a stratified random sampling method. To collect data, Samuels' Academic Resilience Questionnaire (2004), Bar-On's Emotional Intelligence (1997), Dennis and Vander Waal's Cognitive Flexibility (2010), and Roger and Najarian's Coping Styles (1993) were used. SPSS and AMOS software were used to analyze the collected data.
Findings: The results showed that emotional intelligence and academic flexibility directly and indirectly predict academic resilience through coping styles. Coping styles also play a significant mediating role in the relationship between the predictor variables and the criterion variable.
Conclusion: The findings indicate the importance of psychological factors in promoting academic resilience management in student athletes and emphasize the need to teach emotional, cognitive, and coping skills to increase resilience management. In general, the results of this study, in addition to fundamental achievements, can be applied in the Ministry of Education and centers.

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