In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Association of Social Psychology

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran .

2 Master of Psychology, Payam Noor University, Mahabad, Iran.

10.30473/sc.2024.70843.2964

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between perceived social support and academic well-being of female students of the second year of high school in Mahabad city with the mediating role of self-compassion and pleasure-seeking. The research method is descriptive and correlation type. The statistical population was the total female students of the second period of high school in Mahabad city, whose number was 3621. 348 students (After removing 35 incomplete questionnaires) were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research instruments were zimet et al.'s Perceived Social Support Scale (1988), Tuominen-Soinie etal.'s Academic Well-Being (2012), Neff's Self-Compassion scale (2003), and Snaith_Hamilton's anhedonia Scale (1995). Data were analyzed with spss 26 and pls 3 software. The results showed that there is a positive relationship (0.01) between pleasure seeking and academic well-being between perceived social support and academic well-being; Perceived social support and hedonism; self-compassion and academic well-being; and there is a positive relationship between perceived social support and self-compassion (0.05). Self-compassion plays a mediating role between perceived social support and academic well-being; Hedonism also plays a mediating role in the relationship between perceived social support and academic well-being.

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