The Mediating Role of Coping Styles and Locus of Control in the Relationship between Personality Dimensions and Life Satisfaction among Iranian and Armenian students

Mohammad Hassan Heidari; Parvaz Azadfallah; Ahmad Alipour

doi:10.18502/qjcr.v21i83.11093

Mohammad Hassan Heidari PhD student in General Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran Branch, Iran.
Parvaz Azadfallah Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Tarbiat Modares University, Faculty of Humanities, Tehran, Iran
Ahmad Alipour Professor, Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/qjcr.v21i83.11093

Keywords: Coping styles, personality traits, satisfaction, locus of control

Abstract

Aim: This study aimed to explain the relationship between personality model and life satisfaction with the mediating role of coping styles and locus of control among Iranian and Armenian students.

Methods: The present study population included all Iranian and Armenian students who were studying in Iranian and Armenian universities in the 2009-2010 academic years. For sampling, 768 Iranian and 768 foreign students were selected using a random sampling method. Data were obtained using the NEO (1985) Five-Factor Personality Questionnaire, Carver's Stress Coping (1989), Rutter's Locus of Control (1996), and the Life Satisfaction of Diner et al. (1985). Correlation and structural equation modeling were used to analyze the data.

Findings: The results showed that all direct paths in the model except the effect of the agreement on the locus of control were significant. Also, all indirect paths except the path of the effect of the agreement on life satisfaction through the locus of control and the path of the effect of conscientiousness on life satisfaction were significant with the mediating role of the negative emotion-oriented style. Finally, there was a significant relationship between personality traits and locus of control, and coping styles and satisfaction in Iranian and Armenian students (P<0.05) and the assumed model had a good fit.

Conclusion: As a result, people with an internal locus of control, conscientiousness, flexibility, and a problem-oriented coping style have more life satisfaction.