The Structural Equation Modeling of Teachers' Interactive Styles based on the Social Adjustment and Psychological Hardiness with the Mediation of Mental Health in Eight Grade Female Students

The teachers' interactive styles can play an important role in improving the academic and non-academic status of students. Therefore, the aim of this study was structural equation modeling of teachers' interactive styles based on the social adjustment and psychological hardiness with the mediation of mental health in students.

The study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The present research population was all eighth grade female students in Kangavar city in the academic years of 2022-2023 with number of 2417 people, which based on the Krejcie and Morgan table 379 people of them were selected as a sample by multi-stage cluster random sampling method. The data collection tools were included the questionnaires of teachers' interactive styles (Wubbels, 1993), social adjustment (Sinha and Singh, 1993), psychological hardiness (Kiamersi, 1997) and mental health (Goldberg and Hillier, 1979), and the data obtained from its implementation were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling methods in Amos software.

The findings of this study showed that the variables of social adjustment and psychological hardiness on the mental health and the variables of social adjustment, psychological hardiness and mental health on the teachers' interactive styles had a direct and significant effect. In addition, the variables of social adjustment and psychological hardiness with the mediation of mental health on the teachers' interactive styles had an indirect and significant effect (P<0.05).

According to the mentioned results, to improve the teachers' interactive styles, it is possible to provide the basis for improving the social adaptation, psychological hardiness and mental health of students.