Relationship between Family Communication Patterns coherence and flexibility with Psychological well-being: mediating of hardiness in students

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between Family communication patterns family, coherence and flexibility with Psychological well-being by mediating of hardiness in students. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The research population consisted of all secondary school students in Dezful and a sample of 390 students who were selected by cluster random sampling method. To measure variables, psychological well-being questionnaires (Riff 1989), family communication patterns (Rithchie and Fitzpatrick, 1998), family flexibility (Shakeri, 2003), family cohesion (Samani, 2002), and Ahvaz's Hardiness (Qumarsi, 1998) were used. The results showed that communication patterns, coherence and family flexibility and hardiness with psychological well-being of students were significant. The results of path analysis showed that direct and indirect relationships in the proposed model were significant and the relationships between these variables had acceptable fit. Therefore, based on the findings of this research, it can be concluded that psychological hardiness has a mediating role in the relationship between communication patterns, family coherence and flexibility with psychological well-being.