The contribution of psychological well-being and distress tolerance in predicting the social adjustment of soldiers

The present study was conducted with the aim of predicting social adjustment based on psychological well-being and distress tolerance. The descriptive research method was correlation type. The statistical population of the research included all the conscripts of Urmia city in 2022- 2023, who were evaluated using the available sampling method and 100 people were evaluated as a sample and responded to the research tools. Psychological well-being questionnaires of Rief (1995), Distress Tolerance of Simmons and Gaher (2005) and Bell's social adjustment (1961) were used to measure the studied variables. The research data was analyzed using Pearson correlation methods and step-by-step regression analysis with SPSS version 25 software, and the significance level of the tests was considered to be 0.05. The findings showed that there was a significant positive correlation between distress tolerance and psychological well-being. Also, there was a significant positive correlation between distress tolerance and psychological well-being with the social adjustment of conscripts. 17.3% of the variance of social adjustment was explained by psychological well-being and a total of 26.8% of the variance of social adjustment was explained by psychological well-being and distress tolerance of conscripts. Based on the findings of this research, psychological well-being and distress tolerance play an important role in predicting the social adjustment of active duty soldiers, and it seems necessary to pay attention to the mentioned variables to improve the social adjustment of soldiers.