The Mediating Role of academic optimism in the Relationship between Mindfulness and resiliency and high school female students' academic performance

the aim of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of academic optimism in the relationship between mindfulness and resilience and academic performance of female high school students in Mashhad. The research method was descriptive correlational. The statistical population of the study consisted of female students of the seventh district of Mashhad in the academic year of 2022-2023. The sample size based on Klein's suggestion, was 250 students who were selected by available sampling method. The collection tools in this research are Connor-Davidson Resilience Questionnaire (2003), Baer et al.'s five-factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (2006), Tschannen-Moran et al.'s Academic Optimism Questionnaire (2013) and the grade point average was used for the students' academic performance. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics methods such as correlation tests and structural equations with path analysis were used to analyze the data. The results of showed that the conceptual model of research fits well and academic optimism plays the role of a mediator in the relationship between mindfulness and resilience and academic performance of female high school students. The relationship between academic optimism on the resilience and academic performance was also direct and significant. According to the results, It can be concluded from the results of the study that academic optimism in the students has a facilitating role in the development of resilience and academic performance. Thus, mindfulness, academic optimism will be established, and eventually the resilience and academic performance will be upgraded and developed.