Modling the Relationship Between the Effect of Social support and Mindfulness on Psychological Well-being Considering the Mediating Role of Satisfying basic Psychological Needs in Parents of Exceptional Children

The aim of this study was to modling the relationship between the effect of social support and mindfulness on psychological well-being considering the mediating role of satisfying basic psychological needs in parents of exceptional children. In this descriptive-correlational study, all the parents of exceptional children of Khuzestan privince in year 2019 constituted the research population. From this population, 234 people were selected through convenience sampling method. In this study, social support, mindfulness, psychological well-being and satisfying basic psychological needs were used for data collection in this study. Data were analyzed by SPSS & AMOS edit 25 using a path analysis method. Bootstrap test was used to test the indirect relationships. The results of this study showed that all direct paths social support with psychological well-being were significant. Indirect pathways were also significant through satisfying basic psychological needs with psychological well-being. The proposed model had an acceptable fitness to the result and an important step in recognizing the effective factors in the psychological well-being of parents of exceptional children and can be useful as a model for designing and stress management programs and increased psychological well-being for this parents.