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

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PHD student in general psychology , Department of Educational science and psychology,faculity of psychology , central Tehran Branch of Islamic Azad university , Tehran , Iran.

2 Assistant proffeser in general psychology , Department of Educational science and psychology ,faculity of psychology , central Tehran Branch of Islamic Azad university , Tehran, Iran.

3 Assistant professor in general psychology , Department of Educational science and psychology, faculty of psychology , central Tehran Branch of Islamic Azad university , Tehran, Iran.

10.30473/sc.2025.73267.3041

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to model spiritual health based on life expectancy with the mediation of emotional regulation and distress tolerance and the moderating role of gender in students of Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels. The research method is descriptive-correlational and applied. The sampling method is available and the sample size includes 500 students (250 women and 250 men). It includes the questionnaires of Ellison's spiritual health (1982), Schneider et al.'s life expectancy (1991), and Simmons and Gaher's distress tolerance (2005) and Granofsky et al.'s cognitive emotion regulation (2001), whose reliability based on Cronbach's alpha was 0.9, 0.72, 0.89, and 0.81, respectively. Data analysis includes descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) and in the inferential analysis of data, structural equation modeling and Smart pls4 software were used. The findings indicate that the t value for the direct and indirect effects of all research hypotheses is smaller than (t=1.96). Therefore, it can be concluded that the gender variable does not moderate (strongly or weakly) the direct effect of life expectancy on spiritual health and the indirect effect of life expectancy on spiritual health through the mediation of emotional regulation and distress tolerance and the moderating role of gender of students with 95% confidence. considering that the numerical value of SRMR is less than 0.08 and NFI is close to 1, the research model has a good fit. The results of this research are applicable in psychological counseling centers.

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