Relationship between Parent's Religiosity and Student's Resilience and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Religious Wisdom

This study investigated mediation role of the religious wisdom in relationship with parent's religiosity and student's resilience and mental health.
The method of this study is the calculation of correlations. Participants were 308 girl students with their parents. Students were selected from Alzahra university of Tehran with random sampling method. They completed the questionnaires of resilience of Connor- Davidson, mental health of Goldberg and religious wisdom of Mir-drikvandi. Parents completed the inventory of religiosity of Khodayari Fard. To examine the reliability of the measures, Cronbach, s alpha coefficient was used. The validity of the measures are verified by specialists. The path diagram of hypothetical model was tested by using Lisrel 8.7.
The results of the survey showed that religiosity of parents directly affect student's wisdom and student's wisdom directly affect their resilience and mental health. The indirect effect of mother's religiosity on resilience and mental health is meaningful, but the indirect effect of father's religiosity is not meaningful.
The authors of the present article concluded that religious wisdom is a good mediator between parent's religiosity –particularly the mother- and the children's resilience and mental health.