Structural Model of Psychological Capital and Perceived Social Support with Quality of Life: Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment

All over the world every year, many families abandon their children due to various problems, including family and financial problems. The most common form of keeping these people is living in orphanages. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the fit of the structural model of psychological capital and perceived social support with quality of life in girls living in orphanages with the mediating role of psychological empowerment.

The method of the current research quantitative wherein correlation was done in the form of structural equation modeling. The research population consisted of girls living in orphanages in Rasht city in 1400 (2021), and 120 of them were selected by available sampling method. They responded to Luthans psychological capital, perceived social support questionnares developed by Zimet et al. in tandem with Spritzer psychological empowerment questionnaire and WHO quality of life questionnaire. The data were analyzed by the method of structural equation modeling based on partial least squares approach with SmartPLS3 software.

All exogenous and mediating variables, i.e., psychological capital, perceived social support, and psychological empowerment, were found to be able to predict 75% of the changes in the quality of life in girls living in orphanages, which is very strong. The GOF index of this research is 0.586, which is strong according to the set criteria, the general model of the research was also found to have a good fit.

According to the results, it can be concluded that psychological empowerment intensifies the effectiveness of psychological capital and perceived social support on the quality of life of orphanage residents and mediates it.