Relationship Dimensions Perceived Social Support by Psychological Well-being amongM.A Students at University of Isfahan

Dimensions of perceived social support with psychological well-being among college students are one of the key and important factors. Perceived social support helps students to feel valued and to provide opportunities for them to develop their abilities and competencies. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the dimensions of perceived social support and psychological well-being among postgraduate students of Isfahan University.

The present study is non-experimental in terms of quantitative nature, in terms of amount and control of variables, and descriptive-correlational in terms of data collection. The statistical population of this study is students of master's degree programs at the University of Isfahan in the academic year 2016-2017, which is a total of 4469 people, of which 351 people were examined by stratified sampling method. The main tools used to collect the data needed for the research were perceived social support questionnaires and psychological well-being, the reliability of which was satisfactory in all areas. After collecting the data from the questionnaires and assigning scores to the scale, in order to quantify the data, all the information in the questionnaires entered the SPSS21 statistical software and analyzed the structural equations (Lisrel) separately by demographic variables. The, descriptive statistics methods were used. The normality of the data was investigated through Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. After determining the normality of the studied data, parametric Pearson correlation coefficient, multivariate regression, variance correlation and structural equation modeling wereused.

In this study, a significant coefficient of research hypotheses was obtained above 1.96. Therefore, the research hypotheses were confirmed. Also, the overall fit of the conceptual research model shows good fit, meaning that the conceptual research model is close to the real society.

The results showed that the overall contribution of psychological well-being is significant based on the three variables of family support, friends' support and important people's support. There is also a positive and significant relationship between the dimensions of perceived social support and psychological well-being, ie with increasing perceived social support, psychological well-being also increases