Gratitude and Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being in School: The Multiple Mediating Roles of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction at School and Prosocial Behavior

The purpose of this study was to test and compare the causal relationship of appreciation with perceived well-being in school by mediating the psychological needs and social behavior of students. The statistical population of this study was all girls and boys from the first to third year high schools of Ahwaz in the academic year 1396-1397. From this community, 350 people were selected by multistage random sampling method. Finally, 350 questionnaires were completed in full. The present study was a correlational structural equation model. The researchers were asked to research tools including the GQ-6 questionnaire (McQueen et al., 2002), perceived well-being at school (BASWBSS), Tian et al. (2015), the questionnaire Carrier's Basic Psychological Needs (2012) and Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBI) Zhang et al. (2004). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and SPSS software version 22 and AMOS-20. The results of the study showed that there was a significant direct correlation with competence, affilability, social behavior and perceived well-being (p = 0.001). Also, the results of bootstrap analysis to investigate indirect hypotheses showed that mediator variables, basic psychological needs, and The social behavior was mediated between appreciation and perceived well-being.