Structural Modeling of the Relationship between Spiritual Health with Addiction Tendency in Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Emotional well-being

Nasrin  Naderifar; Bahman  Akbari; Abbas  Sadeghi

doi:10.18502/ssu.v31i9.14187

Nasrin Naderifar Department of Psychology, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.
Bahman Akbari Department of Psychology, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.
Abbas Sadeghi Department of Counseling, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/ssu.v31i9.14187

Keywords: Spirituality, Addiction, Adolescents, Well-being.

Abstract

Introduction: Over the past few decades, the phenomenon of addiction has increased all over the world for various reasons. The aim of this study was to investigate structural modeling of the relationship between spiritual health with addiction tendency in adolescents with the mediating role of emotional well-being.

Methods: This research was descriptive-correlation based on the model of structural equations. The statistical population of this research included all the male students of the second secondary level of public high schools in Rasht City in the year of 2021. From this community, 300 qualified volunteers have been selected for the study by the multistage cluster sampling method. Three standard questionnaires, including Paloutzian and Ellison Spiritual Well-Being Scale (1982), Keyes and Magyar-Moe subjective well-being (2003), and Mousavi et al Addiction Tendency Scale (2008) were used for data collection. Evaluation of the proposed model was done through structural equations; amos24 software was utilized to analyze the findings.

Results: The results showed that the relationship between spiritual health and addiction tendency, also relationship between emotional well-being and addiction tendency were negative and significant (P<0.01). The relationship between emotional well-being and spiritual health was positive and significant (P<0.01). In the meantime, the indirect path of emotional well-being was significant in the relationship between spiritual health and addiction tendency (p<0.01). Finally, all the fit indexes were at an optimal level.

Conclusion: This research confirms the mediating role of emotional well-being in the relationship between spiritual health and addiction tendency. It is hoped that families and guardian organizations will benefit from the results of this research.