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Psychological toughness is described as one of the most important health potentials in theoretical and research bases, so the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the mediating role of mindfulness in the relationship between spiritual experiences and psychological hardiness of nurses.

The present research was a Cross-sectional analysis type of path analysis. The research community included all the nurses of Birjand city in the second six months of 2023, of which 280 people were selected Stratified random sampling method (male and female). The data collection tools were spiritual experiences questionnaires by Underwood and Tersi (2002), mindfulness by Chadwick et al. (2008) and psychological hardiness by Kiamerei et al. SPSS version 22 and Amos software were used for data analysis.

Bentayj showed that spiritual experiences have a direct positive effect on mindfulness (p < 0.01, β = 0.592). Spiritual experiences have an effect on psychological hardiness both directly (p<0.01, β=0.198) and through the mediation of mindfulness (p<0.01, β=0.224). Mindfulness has a direct positive effect on psychological hardiness (p<0.01, β=0.379).

According to the results of this research, it is suggested to pay more attention to improving spiritual experiences and mindfulness in order to improve the psychological hardiness of nurses.

Nursing is one of the stressful occupations and psychological hardiness can be effective in controlling stress and maintaining and ensuring their health, so the present study was conducted with the aim of the role of spiritual experiences and emotional regulation in predicting the psychological hardiness of nurses.

The current research was a descriptive-correlational study. The research community included all the nurses of Birjand city in 2023. Among the qualified people, 280 nurses were selected through available sampling based on the Gujarsi and Morgan table (1971). They answered the questionnaires about the spiritual experiences of Underwood and Tersi (2002), the emotional regulation of Gross and John (2003), and the psychological hardiness of Kiamrai et al. (2007). Data analysis was performed with SPSS version 22 software.

The results showed that the correlation between emotion regulation (r=0.531) and spiritual experiences (r=0.587) with psychological hardiness was positive. Also, the components of spiritual experiences were 35.3% and the components of emotion regulation were 29.1% of the variance is explained by psychological hardiness.

The findings of the present study showed that the spiritual experiences and regulation of emotions of nurses are effective on their psychological hardiness and it can be said that with the increase of spiritual experiences and regulation of emotions of nurses, the level of psychological hardiness increases. Therefore, it is suggested that by promoting the spiritual experiences and emotional regulation of nurses, the ground for improving their psychological hardiness is provided.